Sentence examples for searching for certainty from inspiring English sources

Poe captured this idea in his story 'William Wilson': 'I would wish them to seek out for me, in the details I am about to give, some little oasis of fatality amid a wilderness of error.' One possible interpretation — searching for certainty where it is inaccessible".

In the same vein, if top management is always searching for certainty before making decisions, it could stifle MO and CSR initiatives.

In an uncertain world, it is only natural that we should search for certainty.

All applied themselves conscientiously, searching for a certainty that sometimes was not there.

The United Nations and key Western governments failed to act in Rwanda and the Balkans in the early 1990s partly because their policy makers were searching for terminological certainty about the nature of the killings.

They are searching for concreteness and certainty in a world that contains neither.

"Whenever there is ambiguity, people will search for more certainty," said Kathleen Tierney, director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware.

Three alternative approaches that improve on certainty equivalence by searching for the best policy among families of policies that embed them are proposed, and their use is exemplified both on static as well as on time-varying dynamic models.

The search for certainty continues.

Gontar began to wonder whether her search for certainty was futile: if the truth was constantly shifting before her eyes, and there was always another side to every story, was there anything solid left to hold on to?

Time, Space and the Unknown: Maasai Configurations of Power and Providence (2003) looked more deeply into universal themes, including the problems of misfortune and the search for certainty in an unknowable universe.