Sentence examples for near a certainty from inspiring English sources

All games could be won - but the current state of Arsenal means this is nowhere near a certainty.

The convulsions that afflict Britain's Conservative Party over European Union membership make a 2017 referendum a near certainty and a pullout a distinct possibility.

On Wednesday, Ryan labeled Sanchez's chances of playing as a near certainty, a full 99 percent.

THE phenomenal success of Suzanne Collins's "The Hunger Games", the first part of a bestselling dystopian trilogy for teenagers (and others), made a film adaptation a near certainty.

"A lawsuit is a near certainty," said Jerome Feder of the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise, based in Scotch Plains.

They are simply reporting the extent to which the market has talked itself from a "possibility" into a near certainty.

However, we are looking at a different situation, with markets perceiving a rate hike as a near certainty.

If the odds of a rich-world recession have risen towards a near certainty, the emerging world as a whole is slowing rather than slumping.

Your view was a theory, which was however not presented as a theory but as a near certainty.

Legal action is a near certainty, said Thaddeaus Lightfoot, an environmental law expert with law firm Dorsey & Whitney.

"But a guilty verdict seems a near certainty".