Sentence examples for seemed so certain from inspiring English sources

What once seemed so certain Sunday — Nadal's record seventh French Open championship — appeared in serious jeopardy.

Everyone seemed so certain, everyone I had met from all parts of the game seemed utterly convinced it was my job.

But Sir Richard stayed at the helm too long and when the company faltered much of what had seemed so certain on his watch, no longer seemed to work.

But after the dazzling confidence of love at first sight came a complex, chaotic year, and what had at first seemed so certain to us (and still seems so now) no longer appeared at all certain or even desirable.

BOSTON — Martha M. Coakley, the Democrat running for Senator Edward M. Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, had seemed so certain of winning the special election on Jan . 19that she barely campaigned last month.

At one point, Johnson seemed so certain the team was gone he called the process a "slow death" and compared the city's efforts to keep the Kings a "Hail Mary".

Few, however, seem so certain.

Arguably, it is their strength over the past four years that now makes a Tory defeat seem so certain.

Jones, 28, nodded that she would be in the Beijing Games in 2008, but it did not seem so certain.

There was little between them after half an hour, although Konta's serve was starting to click and the German did not seem so certain in the shot.

What no longer seems so certain is that at least a smattering of those players are necessary to make an impression at the World Cup.