Lightman himself is a fruit basket of stereotype — cocky, infallible, petulant, divorced, burdened by his proficiencies — who has spent decades reading faces and pronouncing certainties: "If your suspect is surprised for more than one second, he is faking it".
My girlfriend and I are already just guessing as to what to wear; Tansy and Ian are very helpful, but I come to realise that detailed descriptions of my underwear cannot allow them to pronounce with certainty whether I'll be hot or cold.
We fancy, that were we brought, on a sudden, into this world, we would at first have inferred, that one billiard ball would communicate motion to another upon impulse; and that we needed not to have waited for the event, in order to pronounce with certainty concerning it.
And whether you like it or not, you'll work with or lead a team with members whose names you can't pronounce with certainty, and whose upbringing you can't ever fully understand.
Given the moral certainty pronounced by each party, some in the middle feel forced to take sides, blurring the diversity of religious thought that might offer grounds for compromise.
Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood.
No one really knew what was true, but each kid pronounced his version of events with grave certainty, thrilled, for a moment, to be the one everyone else looked to for the truth.
Both sides, of course, pronounce victory as a certainty.
We believe this is a reflection of particularly pronounced spatial variability, although a sampling artifact cannot be ruled out with absolute certainty.
First, the Court pronounced a new test to differentiate statements of opinion from statements of fact: the key distinction is the degree of certainty conveyed by the statement, and the inclusion of words of uncertainty like "I think" and "I believe" can transform a statement of fact into a statement of opinion.
In most cases, we were able to improve the certainty of our health effects estimates with information on residual spatial autocorrelation, but these improvements were, as expected, more pronounced in models that contained less informative exposure information.
