And absent those fuel efficiency standards, we know that we would be paying for that oil, and we would be paying for a certain portion of that we would be paying foreign providers of that oil.
In fact, in most of the deals undertaken by the stranger, the one thing that he can be certain of is that, when the time comes to pay, the price which has been definitely agreed upon has for one very plausible reason or another been increased.
My prediction is that it will probably come in June but I can't absolutely be certain of that and my prediction is that I know that we can win and my prediction is that we'll now pull together and we'll do enough to win but I know certainly that we can.
He says that if tens of thousands of users travel a road without complaining, then Tele Atlas can be fairly certain that its map of the road is correct.
To be certain of that, it should be 100 privatized yesterday.
And Ahmadinejad can be certain that in light of this, no one will utter a peep if on the eve of his trip to America, he arrests or even murders his chief political opponents.
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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.
One official called the decision to remove Libya from the terrorism list a "political decision" that would be taken only after the Bush administration can be certain of assurances from all levels of the Libyan government that it has ended support for terrorism.
Like other I have covered in this on going thought leadership series, Monty seems to be part of certain cult of generosity that pervades the emerging social media profession.
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"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.
If UNMOVIC were to compromise on either of these, we might end up with Iraq begin declared free of WMD, when if fact all that would be certain is that UNMOVIC could not find any evidence of WMD.
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This is a tiny bubble of plasma that might be made so hot that it could initiate certain sorts of fusion.
If the reaction in Muslim-majority states has been muffled, that could be because certain of them share the Swiss voters' belief that the world really does divide into Huntingtonian blocks, where one religion or another prevails, and the rest exist on sufferance.
The only thing we can be certain of is that they will undermine our civil liberties.
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IR It should be apparent that a certain level of false positives leading to innocents being convicted is inevitable.
Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.
Something we can be absolutely certain of is that one position would not be affected in the least by either option.
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And over the next two years, all of Israel's actions aimed at mitigating these threats will need to be taken with the certain knowledge that the country will be in and out of crises with the Obama administration throughout.
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Health care might be a part of that in the case of certain players.
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Would that be the ones that require banks to maintain certain amounts of capital.
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It used to be said of certain actors that they could read the phone book and make it exciting.
In fact, it should be made clear that the certain consequence of continued North Korean nuclear activity will result in intensified bilateral military cooperation.
In the meantime, we can be certain that the scale and speed of this current challenge will only increase as CIOs must rapidly and seamlessly enhance their traditional corporate data with vast new streams of social and mobile data to realize the full potential of these strategic Big Opportunities.
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If one does not have at least the precautionary measures in place to deter others from capitalizing on his IP, then (depending on the viability of the mark) he can be almost certain that someone, somewhere is gaining from the lack of protection.
This is done to such an extent that the next President may be hamstrung should he believe, unlike the incumbent, that the transfer of certain dual-use U.S. technology should be blocked from going to undesirable end-users.
"If you're going to be able to control who your children are calling and chatting with, that may be appealing to a certain set of their users, " she says.
By studying the expression patterns of individual genes, cloners have found that certain genes which should be turned on in early development, such as those that control the implantation of the embryo into the uterus, are activated much later in cloned embryos.
The party to flinch first would be the one that is less certain of its esteem in the eyes of the electorate.
If Lin required surgery after just two months, how can the Knicks be certain that he can handle the stress of a full season?
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