It was a debt of honour, so-called, which I had to pay, and I used money which was not my own to do it, in the certainty that I could replace it before there could be any possibility of its being missed.
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Johnson believes any vote would result in Britain remaining in the EU. "I think most people can see that the overwhelming likelihood, in fact the certainty, is that Britain one way or another will be part of the free trade zone, " he said.
The only certainty in the crisis is that big decisions will have to be made very soon.
Indeed, the one certainty in the tumultuous world of modern telecoms is that, however successful the defensive ploys by incumbents may prove, they will provide little respite from the onslaught of competition.
Hyperconnectivity exaggerates some of the most destabilising trends in the modern workplace: the decline of certainty (as organisations abandon bureaucracy in favour of adhocracy), the rise of global supply chains and the general cult of flexibility.
We stood and stared in astonishment, some of us on the Brooklyn Bridge, others on the jetties on the shore, caught between the urge to dive in after them and the certainty that we would see them reappear again just as before.
The principle failing of macroeconomics is the intrusion it invites and the certainty it instills in the planners.
But now that markets are pricing in the near-certainty of a Greek default, nobody is thinking about how to manage it.
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Or GE at around the same time: If that is not certainty in the investment world, what is?? GE: huge and with a very high rating.
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That's why I said late last week that a short-term continuing resolution was something that was far less than ideal in providing the needed certainty, but that over the course of the next several months, Jack Lew and our budget office will work with Congress to ensure the necessary funding for critical government operations.
These safeguards, which have been largely modeled on successful practices in the private sector, will increase stability, productivity, and certainty in Federal contracting by avoiding the disruption and disarray caused by the use of trafficked labor and resulting investigative and enforcement actions.
The lesser drop today versus January was due to increased comfort in Cook and certainty around the future direction of Apple.
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However, once a church becomes established, with a hierarchy and a trained ministry, its clergy acquire theology degrees, often losing the raw certainty of their faith in the process.
In fleeing higher-risk assets these investors are trading in the possibility of loss for the certainty of eventual real-wealth losses in traditional fixed-income securities.
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This is an important step in providing certainty for the market in this new process.
So the certainty in a time of economic uneasiness is a key part of his message.
On Budget day, Mr Osborne said the UK government would enter into contracts with companies in the sector to provide certainty over relief.
And they had just hired several hundred people and were looking at hiring several hundred more because they are seeing some certainty in the renewable energy industry.
Another important certainty in the world of finance has gone.
American's frequent fliers will gain more certainty in the future of the airline, which is currently in bankruptcy court, but will likely find lots of US Airways loyalists now competing for award seats on American flights.
And at a time of historic crisis in our auto industry, when domestic auto manufacturers are making painful choices and restructuring their businesses to be viable in the future, this rule provides the clear certainty that will allow these companies to plan for a future in which they are building the cars of the 21st century.
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Therefore, YOU NEED TO CONTINUE TO MAKE THE LACK OF SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY A PRIMARY ISSUE IN THE DEBATE, and defer to scientists and other experts in the field.
Since it is not possible for the Editors of JACC to determine with certainty that the findings in the above articles were erroneous, we have elected not to retract these manuscripts.
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Big companies have a big advantage in recruiting today's most valuable resource: talent. (Graduates have debts, and many prefer the certainty of a salary to the lottery of stock in a start-up.) Large firms are getting better at avoiding bureaucratic stagnation: they are flattening their hierarchies and opening themselves up to ideas from elsewhere.
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Put in a stop-loss order and the one certainty is that you'll lock in a trading commission.
Whatever demons first drove him, he had turned to an extreme ideology that expressed the kind of absolute certainty that can feel comforting in the short-term but that destroys all understanding in the long-term.
But now, following a record 37th win as Test captain, a trip back to the sub-continent in 2004 is looking a certainty, unless injury denies him the opportunity.
In the past, there can have been no certainty of peace in Berwick.
This means the certainty reported in the media and by other scientists is misleading.
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For the time being, uncertainty is the only certainty in Cardiff's new Assembly.
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