Suppose your 1976 sense of moral certitude overrode your natural instinct to want children.
Guesses are no substitute for the certitude we need when it comes to such life-and-death matters.
First of all, it is a certitude that one or both of these predictable results will eventuate.
This view, which reflects a breathtaking certitude on a variety of complex judgments, assumes away the substance of the controversy.
At the very least, it is a certitude that no one who sees "The Stoning" will ever be quite the same.
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The following day, in a series of interviews, he said he could not say with "certitude" if the photograph was of him.
Still, despite the only certitude I have the knowledge that I will die I find pleasure and love, if not meaning.
Mayor Bloomberg has been vigilant that the race will not "redirect any focus" but after the unprecedented week this city has experienced, can any claim about preparation be made with such certitude?
Finally, and especially worrisome, is the possibility that entirely inappropriate lessons might be drawn about the certitude the West can have concerning Gorbachev's hold on power and his control over the Soviet military.
With their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost there was no hope for this candidate who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.
What kept her going indefatigably for roughly a half-century in the dog-eat-dog newspaper business was her quiet, unstated, but fully justified certitude that she was making a difference with each layout and the creativity that made it compelling reading.
In her intensity and her certitude, Ms. Crawford calls to mind several of the reformers brought so vividly to life by the late historian Thomas McCraw in his "Prophets of Regulation" (1984), most notably the progressive lion Louis Brandeis.
The imposition of the homosexual agenda on the only military we have has gone from being a putative certitude to something that will only happen over the adamant objections of the leaders of each of the Defense Department's four armed services.
So, I say to you, even as we struggle with this tragedy, even as we grapple with the profound loss and devastating grief, we can look up at the heavens and think of these heroes and know, know with certitude that there is not a single, solitary tragedy that America cannot overcome.
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