Sentence examples for uncertain event from inspiring English sources

Germination is a much slower and more uncertain event in fields than in artificial cultures.

Then she needed only one attempt in her most uncertain event to qualify for the long jump final.

Such uncertainty about security has made the full flowering of the Iraqi oil industry an uncertain event.

Tonight, and for several nights, he is mounting a magical, spontaneous, uncertain event that depends upon the cooperation of nightingales.

The crisis has had the opposite effect on the Conservatives, making their conference a much more subdued and uncertain event than anyone expected.

But rather than formal approaches, many companies use risk lists with a contingency plan appended to each risk, implicitly treating each uncertain event as independent.

The prudence trap leads us to be overcautious when we make estimates about uncertain events.

Making estimates or forecasts about uncertain events, however, is a different matter.

Organizations and individuals are notoriously poor at judging the likelihood of uncertain events.

Moreover, it involves multiple uncertain events that may appear at different points in the future.

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is the tendency to perceive uncertain events as threatening.