Sentence examples for uncertain answers from inspiring English sources

Demands for his tax returns have been met with hesitant, uncertain answers that have exacerbated the issue.

Trade negotiators fear unscripted debates much as trial lawyers hesitate to ask questions with uncertain answers; reaching agreement is easier when the differences are narrow and clearly defined.

Mr. Hagel's shaky performance was reminiscent of his Senate confirmation hearings, when his uncertain answers prompted questions about his potential effectiveness as a spokesman for Mr. Obama's military policy.

One Nobel prizewinner, who sits on INET's board, told him that he ceased teaching macroeconomics to graduate students because he thought his unconventional approach would damage their job prospects.Mr Colander thinks the imperative to publish frequently forces young economists to tackle bite-sized problems, rather than asking big questions with distant, uncertain answers.

As he battles for the Republican nomination, Mr. Romney's hesitant, uncertain answers about his wealth have provided an opening for two rivals, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, to become the candidate of the middle class, which Mr. Romney had set out to be.

From where do you recognize that person?" Because witnesses frequently offer uncertain answers — "I think it is No. 3," for example — the memo instructs detectives to avoid a basic error: asking witnesses to gauge their confidence on a scale of 1 to 10. (Anything less than a 10 invites doubt from jurors at a trial).

In a recent interview, I asked Mr. Previn whether he thought he had helped Americanize the orchestra and got an uncertain answer.

Support began to wane for an equation that would always have an uncertain answer: Iraq minus how many weapons equals enough?

On this account, if we are not certain of the truth, then it is always progressive to change an uncertain answer to a logically weaker one.

It is precisely the uncertain answer to this question that explains a great deal of the game of chicken that Greece and the Europe have been playing.

Random answers may be found for those items which involve unfamiliar knowledge, or are too complex to understand and therefore yield an uncertain answer, or are ambiguous, leading to variable responses [ 21].