In each of these stories there was a certainty of knowing right from wrong when they were alone, but somehow their judgement became clouded when they were in the company of friends and they did not speak up to the wrong they knew they were doing.
Economists and investors said the surprise narrowing of the deficit makes it a near certainty that a revision of the U.S. gross domestic product in the fourth quarter, expected next week, will likely show continued growth during the last three months of 2012.
"We have very selfish reasons for wanting to be a role model, " Chambers says, his cheery West Virginia twang infected with a bit of swagger and a ton of iron-will certainty.
Come the referendum, again say Nationalists, it will be SNP leaders who are offering the certainty of continuing social democratic policies - while simultaneously decrying the absence of certainty and a perceived "threat" from the other side.
Need to estimate with a level of certainty how many sports cars will be sold during a recession?
Instead the government is set to fix the future price of new nuclear electricity, to give investors the certainty of a future income stream.
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The Environment: You need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue.
However, whereas the nuclear-burst scenario is a mere possibility, the frequent recurrence of solar storms is a certainty.
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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.
But surely the company had to know that by requiring 30% turnout of its 1 billion members, it was a 100% certainty that almost nothing short of a requirement to publicly disclose your Social Security number would ever elicit enough votes to make any difference.
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He has the endorsement of Mr Riordan and of the Los Angeles Times, and his charisma and energy make up for a lack of certainty about how he would run the city.
"While I don't think that a separate office for post-marketing surveillance is likely, a strengthened Office of Drug Safety is almost a certainty, " says David Kessler, a former FDA commissioner who is now a dean at the University of California, San Francisco.
This concern prompted 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts to send a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on April 10, admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change, while neglecting basic empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.
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Imagine the benefits to American businesses and families of knowing with a very high level of certainty that the buying power of the dollar five, 10 or 20 years from now would be approximately the same as it is today.
In terms of probability (where 1 is a certainty and 0 an impossibility), that translates into a likelihood of 0.000...0006, where there are 138 zeros before the six.
"On the basis of the expert analysis, it is possible to conclude with a large degree of certainty that parts of the skeleton... belong to Tsarevich Alexei and his sister, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna Romanova", Vladimir Gromov told Russian media.
By agreeing to a more fiscally responsible government and establishing the rules of the road for the next several years, policymakers could introduce a greater degree of certainty, which would spark greater investment, hiring, output, and trade.
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This leads me to the other advantage of bonds over bond funds: you can pick the maturity date and know with a high degree of certainty when you are going to get your money back.
Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
Moody's cited a lack of certainty on fiscal reforms and the region's weakening economic prospects.
But there have been concerns among independent schools about a lack of certainty about what public benefit means.
Will Wall Street create new financial products that will profit from the certainty of a two-year rate freeze?
No, many businesses have already embraced this idea because it provides a level of certainty about the future.
That would create a lot of certainty if the House were to pass it for the American people.
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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And so what you're seeing right now is a lack of certainty about Italy's and Spain's ability to roll over the debt.
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The allure of a system that promises certainty in topsy-turvy times is obvious, especially when that system is supposed to shower riches on its acolytes.
But, Joelson adds, creating a climate of policy certainty in Washington that supports sustainable growth is key to the future success of all businesses.
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