Sentence examples for rather sure of from inspiring English sources

Yet while capability scholars initially seemed rather sure of their case against Rawls (Sen 1980, Nussbaum 2006), a more recent wave of philosophical enquiry has highlighted how complicated the comparisons between Rawls's theory of justice and the capability view are (Pogge 2002, Robeyns 2009, Brighouse and Robeyns eds. 2010).

One thing I am rather sure of is that we will hear words like "nothing like this ever happened in this community before".

Substantial proportions (>20%) of "not sure" and "rather sure" answers were observed for items in all subscales (Table 3).

We are thus rather sure that neither goat or whale nor traces of human, monkey or mouse DNA are present in the sample.

If you buy dinner from a three-star Michelin restaurant you can be confident of getting a good meal, but today if you buy a bond from an AAA-rated borrower you can be rather less sure of getting your money back.

Rather, she always sounds sure of herself, even when playing chronically hesitant characters, like the wannabe film-maker in Ben Stiller's Reality Bites.

"Hopefully we'll introduce maybe one new drama a year that we're sure of rather than throw a whole load of average telly out there and hope some sticks.

It means they can plan ranges and advertising around a flow of gems they can be sure of, rather than one-off deliveries they are always uncertain of.

The harder one is the overriding expression on the faces of many of the defendants brought into confront the consequences of their actions; it is not a look of remorse or contrition or even self-pity and anger but rather a sure sense of inevitability.

He'd love to play beautiful football for everyone to enjoy but if it didn't guarantee he'd win the game, he'd rather play rubbish and be sure of winning".

Acting like a Goa'uld can lead you to be loved by many people because if done correctly, you can come off very strong and sure of yourself rather than a tyrant and rude bastard.