"A complete bar, unlike a flexible bar, thus lends certainty to the process of determining the scope of protection afforded by a patent," the Federal Circuit said in explaining its decision.
Airline CFOs, for example, typically use call options as part of their fuel-hedging strategies, dampening their exposure to oil-price volatility and lending certainty to their cost projections.
The President continues to urge Congress to pass a bill that raises the debt ceiling and lends the certainty our businesses and the economy needs.
It is in the nature of court cases that findings of guilt lend an artificial certainty to the world.
Were there a voice that could lend a popular certainty to any undertaking at all in an electorate as polarized as any since the Civil War, this would be easier, carefully nurtured confusion being the root cause of our troubles.
The findings show the vaccine does not increase the risk of autism, lending new statistical certainty to what was already medical consensus.
But the causes of this phenomenon are far more complicated than a simple mathematical certainty because banks lend money, but not money plus interest.
These are scraps of evidence, not certainties; but they lend weight to the idea that Celtic scribes labouring in their rain-swept refuges were not so much saving Roman civilisation as participating in a spiritual movement inspired by the desert hermits of Egypt: a movement that was conceived, in part, as a revolt against civilisation.
No nursing colleges and associations interviewed claimed knowledge of active or targeted recruitment, lending plausibility, though not certainty, to the latter hypothesis of nurses self-locating.
Among other things, they cite accelerated declines in wages and salaries, mounting job losses, the near-certainty of a lot more foreclosures, the unwillingness of most banks to lend and declining consumer confidence.
