Sentence examples for knowing with certainty from inspiring English sources

It wanted Posada to come to spring training knowing with certainty that he would be the catcher.

Descartes's chief contribution to modern science and philosophy was his radical focus on epistemology, on defining the boundaries of what we are capable of knowing with certainty.

In an interview, Mr. Pike, whose group in Alexandria, Va., analyzes space and military technologies, defended the military's evasiveness as resulting not from dissembling but from the difficulty of knowing with certainty what every part of its vast network was up to.

Whether they possess the precise nucleotide sequences or not, knowing the general technique and, more important, now knowing with certainty that such a beast can be made, would-be terrorists can collect their own bird flu viruses in Asia and attempt to brew up a nightmare.

Even his beliefs about the objects in his immediate vicinity may be mistaken, because, as he notes, he often has dreams about objects that do not exist, and he has no way of knowing with certainty whether he is dreaming or awake.

Part of the problem that has nagged construction of a treatment plant — which would fuse the waste with glass into stable, storable logs for long-term burial, a process called vitrification — is knowing with certainty the composition of the waste that might flow through pipelines from the tanks.

There's little way of knowing with any certainty.

One is how to process people fairly but quickly; the other, what to do with those who are rejected.Both tasks are made harder by the difficulty of knowing with any certainty where a refugee comes from.

That's why we continue to drink, smoke, practice privation (overeating), use sunbeds and undergo unnecessary purely cosmetic surgical procedures, despite knowing with absolute certainty that all of these things are detrimental to our health.

We don't have very accurate ways of looking at tissue and looking at tumors under the microscope and knowing with great certainty that it is a slow-growing cancer".

He Could Be Far Away All this leaves American forces with the frustration of continuing the hunt for Mr. bin Laden without the spur that would come from knowing, with reasonable certainty, that he is still alive.