Sentence examples for with virtual certainty from inspiring English sources

It is extraordinary to know with virtual certainty the day and hour when a species ceases to be a living entity.

Nevertheless, the IPCC's report makes it clear that rising sea levels, acidifying oceans, shrinking icecaps and thawing Arctic tundra are now likely to occur with virtual certainty by the end of the present century.

(Part one, released in Stockholm in September, focussed on the geophysics of climate change and asserted with virtual certainty that human activity "has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century").

"If I were to tell somebody with virtual certainty that, over the next 20 years, they were going to earn a 4percentt real return on stocks, boy, would they be disappointed," Mr. Siegel said.

In one statement, obtained by The Detroit Free Press, an employee told investigators from the Department of Agriculture that he or she knew with "virtual certainty" that meats produced and sold by the Bil Mar plant were contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria that causes the disease listeriosis.

William Ellsworth, a research geologist at the United States Geological Survey, told me, "We can say with virtual certainty that the increased seismicity in Oklahoma has to do with recent changes in the way that oil and gas are being produced".

It's so bad, a recent study showed you can predict the results of any race in Ohio with a virtual certainty just by knowing the political makeup of a particular district.

He was in the paradoxical position of hoping this would lose to the jack, for if that happened he could be sure of making three diamond tricks, with nine a virtual certainty.

In form (3), intent can be simply decided in the case of a direct attack, or "virtual certainty", with knowledge of the virtual certainty – the Woollin principle.

Your combined hands offer a borderline play for a grand slam in either of two suits, with a small slam a virtual certainty.

With this cabinet, it is a virtual certainty that this administration will be the most corrupt and scandal prone in American history.