Sentence examples for need for certainty from inspiring English sources
About our need for certainty.
Negative stuff has to do with mindless routines, mechanical thinking, and the need for certainty.
He had built his reputation on being impervious to external forces, yet his crease rituals always hinted at his need for certainty.
Mr. Romney is right about the need for certainty — and that's precisely why we should cut payroll taxes deeply and permanently, both for employers and employees.
The need for certainty and uniformity in the provisions governing trade motivated the growth of one set of rules for commercial transactions, valid everywhere in Europe.
Exposure therapy refuses to indulge this compulsive need for certainty by gradually exposing you to triggers and encouraging you to embrace doubt.
But this could be the cry of any of Nolan's heroes – driven by the need for absolute certainty in worlds where certainty is impossible: Guy Pearce's amnesia victim in Memento, struggling to remember the clues that will lead him to his wife's killer, or Leonardo DiCaprio's dream thief in Inception, attempting to disentangle five levels of dreams from reality.
In the 1830s two great judges, James Kent of New York and Joseph Story of Massachusetts, produced important commentaries on common law and equity, emphasizing the need for legal certainty and for security of title to property.
As flagged by the prime minister, Tony Abbott, the review's terms of reference focus heavily on the impact of the RET on power prices, but also include the need for investment certainty for the renewables industry.
The wider point, on the other hand, concerns the moral environment in which artists do their work, the expectations of them nurtured by their admirers and the pedestals on which a public need for moral certainty demands that they should repose.
In this remarkable analysis, Green identified the mismatch between the political need for scientific certainty versus the notion of probability, which dominates the world of scientific thinking as the principal cause of this conflict.
