The nature of the department's errors, with all the bidders given flawed data, explains why the Department for Transport has said it cannot be certain that the outcome of the bidding process would have been different if the process had been robust, Robert Peston adds.
Could it be that it is very dynamic, that certain initiatives are worked on very quickly, quick winds are found and put out to the team?
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And while some might argue that it imposes certain constraints that might be called a "fix, " it could also be described as an attempt to conserve a cherished way of doing things.
"If I win a stage or I'm the leader in this Tour, it could be that certain persons don't like it, " he says.
"The sell-off is a step into the unknown in that we cannot be certain that it would provide service equal to that provided by the RAF, " said Mr Jones.
While it may be true that the archetypal chief executive is driven as much by a desire for power and to amaze the world with his business prowess as by a desire to be rich, human nature makes it certain that some will be guided by meaner motives.
It is thought that the UK operation will be put on hold for several weeks while the British Geological Survey considers the situation, but given the potential importance of fracking as a substantial contribution to world future energy needs, it is almost certain that it will not be abandoned.
Yet, it is difficult to be certain that this is because they lack coverage or whether some other factor is at work.
"We owe it to the survivors not simply to say that a certain time has passed and that it should be swept under the carpet, " he says.
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It used to be said of certain actors that they could read the phone book and make it exciting.
There is no way to know what the final agreement will look like or whether it will be signed in 2012 or early 2013, but it is nearly certain that income tax rates on all but the highest earners will be kept at current rates.
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So much so that they believe even deeply problematic legislation can be blown through Congress, certain that it won't matter when the public figures out what happened, because it will be too late to do anything about it.
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In 2010 during the H1N1 flu epidemic, the FDA warned consumers about a potentially harmful counterfeit anti-flu drug that could be a killer in two respects: It lacked any of the flu-preventing medicine it purported to be while it did contain an antibiotic similar to penicillin that can be lethal to certain people.
This is a tiny bubble of plasma that might be made so hot that it could initiate certain sorts of fusion.
In the coming days, it is almost certain that more will be learned about the explosions and the motives behind it.
Finally, be certain that it works (on several computers) before sending it out.
Yet Apple, in the Samsung cases, seems to be saying that there are certain patents that it would never license.
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"Already the market is delivering superfast internet speeds of 50Mbps to half the country but we cannot be certain that it will reach the communities that are not currently served, " said Business Secretary Lord Mandelson in a statement unveiling the consultation.
Again there was mention at the recent budget of an increase in pension age and this has yet to be finalised but it is certain that pension ages will increase, although remember that there is a difference between the State Pension age and the age at which you are able to start to draw benefits for public sector or private pensions.
Moreover, it appears likely that certain charges could not be presented in a civilian court because the proof that would have to be offered could, if publicly disclosed, compromise sources and methods of intelligence gathering.
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Even without that, it seems certain that there will be many more fraud scandals before health care is cured of its vices.
"It might be illegal because of certain rules that protect the privacy and secrecy of what goes before a grand jury, " former Justice Department prosecutor Martin Pollner said.
After a scoreless second period and, with the sides locked at a goal apiece, it seemed certain that overtime would be required for the second successive match before Lidstrom intervened.
And Mr Wing said that some markets - for example Russia, Brazil, Italy and Japan - were "under-screened" and it was certain that studios would be pushing for bigger audiences in these areas.
The bill is due to be discussed by MPs in the Commons on Tuesday and Wednesday but it is not yet certain that the amendment will even be heard, says BBC political correspondent Ben Geoghegan.
Now that the rating agencies are downgrading CDOs as well as the underlying mortgage-backed bonds that they reference, it seems all but certain that banks and others will be forced into another round of markdowns.
If you can chart a stock and see that it has never broken above a certain price, that may be a good price to sell.
If it's the will of the Congress to change the crime of perjury, to modify it, to eliminate certain judicially created defenses to that offense, so be it.
That said, it is virtually certain that new vehicles being sold today will be even more reliable in three years.
While it may be cost effective to outsource certain applications, it isn't necessarily true that it makes sense to run them in a cloud.
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