The government could claim victory because, as Murphy proclaimed, by winning "an admission of guilt from Omar Khadr" they also won "certainty -- not just on one or two of the charges, but on all of them".
DiCaprio is said to be a near certainty to win his first acting Oscar.
Hunter, who is 31, seemed a certainty to win the Olympic gold medal at the Sydney Games earlier this season.
This time three weeks ago, it was saying that Obama was a virtual certainty to win, which is what almost all the pundits, myself included, were saying.
Paul Collingwood, great fielder and a superlative team man, is fighting the dying of the batting light and while he may win this battle the certainty is that there will be others and soon.
WASHINGTON — Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, who had been a certainty to win her fourth term in November, stunned the U.S. political world last month by announcing that she was retiring.
Emotional scenes #GoParalympicsGB August 31 , 20127.26pm BST Britwatch in the Olympic Stadium At the risk of tempting fate, Guardian columnist and Halifax speed merchant Hannah Cockroft looks a certainty to win the wheelchair T34 event tonight at 8pm.
But not everyone in Tehran is happy that Asghar Farhadi's hugely successful work, A Separation, is now a racing certainty to win an Oscar for the best foreign film at this month's Academy Awards.
But they are by no means certainties to win tomorrow at a best-priced 5-4 with Paddy Power.
Guardian writers' prediction: 6th (NB: this is not necessarily Paul's prediction, but the average of our writers' tips) Last season's position: 7th Odds to win the league: 14-1 Certareties are fewer than Gary Neville worshippers in Liverpool right now.
