Sentence examples for it virtually certain from inspiring English sources

In this case, HotelTonight's laser-like focus on these two KPIs made it virtually certain the company would move past its rough patch and set itself up for future success.

China has given its backing to a second term for Secretary General Kofi Annan, making it virtually certain that the Security Council will recommend his re-election by the General Assembly in the fall.

All these predetermined elements combined to make it virtually certain that governments would attempt to reflate.

Those passages make it virtually certain that John baptized Jesus and highly probable that John asked Jesus who he was.

The governing Baath Party nominated Bashar al-Assad for president today, making it virtually certain that he will succeed his late father as the country's leader.

The bidding made it virtually certain that the heart ace was on his right, but he could hope for the queen to be on his left.

In the future, the report said, "it is virtually certain" that coastal headlands, spits and barrier islands will erode faster than they have in the past.

—It is virtually certain that increases in the frequency of warm daily temperature extremes and decreases in cold extremes will occur throughout the 21st century on a global scale.

In July, a team of international scientists brought together by Climate Central concluded that "it is virtually certain" that the heat wave that struck Europe in early July was more likely now due to climate change.

The agency again claimed, as it did on Monday, that it was "virtually certain" that Iraqi forces had shot down one of the attacking aircraft.

"I wouldn't say it's virtually certain, but I'd give it 80 percent or 90 percent," said John Spencer, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, a member of Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer team.