Sentence examples for permanent uncertainty from inspiring English sources

But without popular endorsement, Britain's position in Europe is bound to be enveloped in permanent uncertainty, so weakening its chances of constructive engagement.

After experiencing the teaching of a "marvellous severe and cruel schoolmaster," whose ministrations Cranmer later maintained instilled in him a permanent uncertainty and pliability, the boy went on to Cambridge in 1503.

What do you call that state of permanent uncertainty, of weak and collapsible institutions, run by even weaker public servants, watched over by an interventionist army, with a constitution and legal mandates just waiting to be torn up when protesters demand it?

We'd live in permanent uncertainty, but you can make a kind of home in purgatory: there are occasional tortures, but it's not so bad.

The White victims have been recorded quite exactly, but there are questions and permanent uncertainty about the Red victims of the terror.

There are of course countless obstacles to overcome for such a policy to work, and political interference will remain a permanent source of uncertainty.The financial crisis is grave, but there are, believe it or not, worse cases of Knightian uncertainty in our recent past.

Their self-effacing attitude and insecurity about the future has touched a nerve with a generation in a permanent state of uncertainty.

"What scares me most is that we continue to be suspended in this permanent state of uncertainty, which creates a political vacuum in and of itself," said Nick Malkoutzis, a journalist and blogger in Athens.

That picture, though, as the eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume had been the first to insist, was always haunted by a small, permanent ghost of uncertainty: no matter how many times the apple fell down, one could never be entirely certain that someday an apple might not fall up.

In this mountainous region of the country an atmosphere of permanent and exhausting uncertainty reigns for refugees and aid workers alike.

That guarantees a near-permanent cloud of uncertainty over whether federal financing will flow.States have several ways of financing infrastructure.