Sentence examples for tone of certainty from inspiring English sources

Despite Mr. Karzai's tone of certainty, international military officials insisted that it was not clear that all those killed were students.

But more broadly, Mr. Goss said, despite the tone of certainty that infused Mr. Powell's presentations and other public pronouncements, the intelligence agencies were severely limited in their analysis by inadequate information about Iraq and what it intended.

Meanwhile, Duflo's tone of certainty about the joys of randomization — she boldly told the TED conference that she could "take the guesswork out of policy-making" — maddens some scholars who have greater tolerance for looser, longer-established ways of trying to effect change.

Cheney delivered his indictment of the current Administration in the same tone of certainty that he once used to inform the nation of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; of the connections between the government of Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 hijackers; and of the prospects for quick victory in Iraq.

Time and again, she turns the mother of Christ into your typically crusty and sage Irish mother, whose tone of certainty and self-pity reminds one of W. B. Yeats's poem "Song of the Old Mother": "I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow / Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow / And then I must scrub and bake and sweep / Till stars are beginning to blink and peep".

"There was absolutely no political discussion whatsoever," she said in a tone of deep certainty.

But he added, with a tone of moral certainty, "My father's position on [gay benefits] is wrong".

In a tone of promising certainty, he informed me, "I am travelling to Turkey next week for university, I am going to do a bachelor of Political Science.

The hallmarks of his newspaper columns a tone of absolute certainty, a fondness for numbered lists and copious IMF statistics become exhausting over hundreds of pages.

But when Ms. Cook delivered it in a tone of wistful certainty, emphasizing "all," it became personalized; all meant all, a huge expenditure of energy over a lifetime, holding nothing back.

These remarks may be characteristically Chilean -- we make statements without any basis, but in a tone of such certainty that no one doubts us" -- yet they don't help conjure a particularly vivid portrait of the country.