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While some of the future effects of climate change are nearly certain, others will be surprises.
What you really want, of course, is a cure, not merely a minimal extension of life expectancy, but nothing is certain.
Only one thing is certain: If we don’t try, peace in Europe and beyond will be tenuous.
It’s not certain that such an undertaking can succeed at a time when world order is eroding and relations with Russia are strained.
And certain types of shareholder activism have bred short-termism on the part of firms.
The fact that certain "social rights" have made their way into some national constitutions on the Continent is no reason to impose them, as the present draft does, on the entire Union.
Nonetheless, while the reforms are crucial for China’s future, they are certain to produce a backlash.
Like markets generally, bond markets can be captured by a popular narrative (or what might euphemistically be called the management of expectations) that overstates the prospects of a certain outcome.
Among those who resigned was Marshal of the Sejm Radek Sikorski, the co-author of a European Union initiative designed to strengthen the resilience of certain Eastern European and Eurasian countries to Russian pressure.
Although the details remain unclear, a thorough restructuring of the European political scene – shaped largely by attitudes toward Europe – seems certain.
In any case, one thing seems certain: in the absence of a sweeping overhaul, the UN may quickly follow in the footsteps of other institutional relics of the Cold War, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO.
There must be certain accepted rules of the political game that are binding on all, so that whoever does not accept or obey them is disqualified.
Who could say to Hamas that unless they accept certain rules, their election is not valid?
Democracy in the sense of free elections within certain rules does not allow the rest of us to say that the cause of freedom has prevailed and that we can walk away.
One thing is certain: Of my three encounters with Hillary Clinton, this third was the one where I found her the strongest and most passionate, thoroughly imbued with the meaning and pitch of the great American pastoral.
Companies with a future need for certain skills would become a kind of sponsor, involving potential future job offers, to a person willing to acquire those skills.
The evidence for cancer is less certain.
Now couples are using this technique to avoid passing on genes that imply a significantly elevated risk of developing certain forms of cancer.
Development economists have long sought to identify the “secret sauce” that enables certain economies to achieve more stable and robust growth than their counterparts.
While acknowledging that trauma is often all too memorable, these certain clinical trauma theorists assert that a condition known as “traumatic dissociative amnesia” leaves a large minority of victims unable to recall their trauma, precisely because it was so overwhelmingly terrifying.
Regrettably, it is far from clear that it has changed its thinking and models, which failed to maintain the economy on an even keel before – and are certain to fail again.
Sarkozy’s Société Générale MyopiaSAN FRANCISCO -- The French government should be honoring Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer for saving Société Générale from certain bankruptcy in the current rogue trader scandal, not criticizing him, as some high government officials have done.
For low levels of debt, increasing the debt burden increases the flow of payments that creditors get; but this relationship is reversed once the debt volume crosses a certain threshold.
Abandoning the habit involves not only the inconvenience of losing perks and a certain lifestyle, but also the loss of power.
The Rousseff administration is also creating incentives (subsidies, directed credit, and even some new import tariffs) aimed at developing certain sectors.
But, although we are now in the MDGs’ final year, we still lack precise knowledge of whether certain MDG targets have been achieved, owing to the absence of high-quality, timely data.
Add to that inadequate regional political-military arrangements, and it is not at all certain that wisdom will triumph over recklessness, or that Asia’s unique decades-long peace will endure.
Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of the fifteenth century to conquer the world, historiography and international politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern: military, economic, and technological power is translated into the exercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and even global dominance and empire.
The damage caused by certain unpopular reforms lasted far longer than the reforms themselves.
What is certain, however, is that the violence unleashed by Putin’s war on Ukraine has claimed hundreds of innocent lives and brought the world a step closer to disaster.
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