Sentence examples for uncertain presence from inspiring English sources

Hall has been found to have diabetes since the Atlanta Games, and was an uncertain presence before the trials began.

Her husband, at least until the crocodile gets him, is underexposed: an uncertain presence at home and seen only patchily in his life outside.

Even at this stage, Radcliffe looks an uncertain screen presence; emotional nuance doesn't trouble his face, and his voice remains a very blunt instrument.

Just as the show began to see itself as a home for genre singers, not just all-purpose pop stylists — this was 2006, the year after Carrie Underwood won — in came Mr. Covington, all long, scraggly hair and chewy accent and uncertain stage presence, tweaking his presentation week to week, figuring things out on the fly.

Though the role of podocyte injury in the pathogenesis remains uncertain, the presence of podocyte foot process effacement raises the possibility of "podocytopathy," at least in a subset of patients [ 10].

Although the position of the root of eukaryotes is still uncertain, the presence of gene fusions and insertion/deletion sequences in the marker genes have allowed us to sort eukaryotes into at least three large groups; Opisthokonta, Amoebozoa and bikonts (Archaeplastida, Chromalveolata, Rhizaria and Excavata) [ 4- 10].

But while the Iraqi government is divided and uncertain about the presence of occupying forces, the will of the Iraqi people has been clear from the beginning: they want the troops withdrawn.

The race is a toss-up, made all the more uncertain by the presence in it of a well-known third candidate, a pro-gun, pro-marijuana libertarian called Gatewood Galbraith, who won 15% of the vote when he ran for governor in 1999.

Their position in the parliament remained uncertain and their presence fluctuated until the 1428 act was revived in 1587 and provision made for the annual election of two commissioners from each shire (except Kinross and Clackmannan, which had one each).

The program applicability is uncertain without the presence of dedicated staff in ED attending the post-ED needs of older patients.

It is still uncertain that the presence of oxidative stress may contribute to the impaired EPC function/proliferation in high glucose status [ 42].