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The rate hikes will likely continue this year, though the speed and extent of the increases are uncertain.
Uncertain funding prospects not only discourage scientists from pursuing risky or undirected lines of research that could lead to crucial discoveries; they also make it more difficult to recruit the best and brightest for scientific careers, especially given the extensive training and specialization that such careers require.
We may hope that its promise of beauty, its challenge of truth, its redefinition of goodness, its unpredictable playfulness will be difficult to abandon even in uncertain and dangerous times.
Yet investors have pushed equity indices to all-time highs, despite the feeble and uncertain recovery, while the VIX index, a proxy for investors’ perceptions of risk, fell to levels not seen since the boom years of 2005 and 2006.
As it stands, Argentina’s prospects are uncertain.
America’s Growth in the Decade AheadCAMBRIDGE – Although the strength of the US economy in 2010 remains uncertain, it is important to look ahead to its likely performance in the coming decade.
As a result, international law came to recognize the “right of protection” against governmental arbitrariness and states’ crimes against their own people, even though enforcement remains quite uncertain.
This uncertain response partly explains Western governments’ lack of will to draw tangible conclusions from the systemic failure of the financial sector.
Moreover, India needs Iran as an alternative trade and energy conduit to Central Asia, bypassing rival Pakistan, and also as a hedge against an uncertain future in Afghanistan after America’s withdrawal in 2014.
Living with InsecurityI have often wondered why Karl Popper ended the dramatic peroration of the first volume of his Open Society and Its Enemies with the sentence: "We must go on into the unknown, the uncertain and insecure, using what reason we have to plan for both security and freedom."
The truth - to quote Popper again - is that "we must go on into the unknown, the uncertain and insecure," come what may.
But it is an uncertain outcome in the longer term, given the coalition’s considerable political baggage, and it is a bad outcome for democracy, especially at a time when populist forces are a growing threat.
An Optimistic Case for the EuroCAMBRIDGE – The prospects for the euro and the eurozone remain uncertain.
In this context, Asia’s future is highly uncertain.
Nonetheless, significant challenges remain, including uncertain performance expectations and evolving disclosure regimes.
Another reason, however, is that Venezuelan financing has lately begun to level off, and its future appears uncertain.
All countries – and Russia in particular – have infrastructure deficiencies in the Arctic; and, even with the sea ice melting, shipping remains risky and uncertain.
But the broader problem remains that people who are uncertain about their gender identification, move between genders, or have both female and male sexual organs do not fit into the standard male/female dichotomy.
June, it turns out, marks another milestone on the alliance’s uncertain path: its operation in Libya has now surpassed in length the one in Kosovo 12 years ago.
Public programs work less well when the best route to the goal – in this case, the most promising post-carbon energy technologies – is uncertain.
Unfortunately, whether this will happen remains uncertain.
To be sure, the causal connection remains uncertain: after all, there is also a positive relationship – widely accepted in development economics – between manufacturing growth and overall growth.
South Africa will need much more than improved economic governance if it is to overcome its challenges and unleash its full potential in an increasingly uncertain global economy.
Today, it is about providing students with the tools to navigate an increasingly uncertain, volatile world.
In 1997, a China still uncertain of its regional role was not a vocal supporter of the Japanese plan for an Asian Monetary Fund.
And Navalny’s five-year prison sentence remains in place, pending an appeal whose outcome is completely uncertain.
We're confused philosophically, we're uncertain religiously.
This revolution in the internalities of our existence, which is unpredictable in its scope and uncertain in its direction, is taking place in a setting of deepening division in the material existence of humanity.
And here, the endless delays are making the challenges more daunting and the outcome more uncertain.
Often young and under-capitalized, these smaller enterprises appear riskier because they are usually found in poorly regulated markets characterized by an uncertain political or economic environment.
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