In 1984, the state still dealt in certainties, even if they were the certainties of deception.
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War, climate change, and the return of fascist politics to the United States and Europe have all shown that the certainties of the 1990s were not certainties at all.
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It is easy to envisage our most cherished certainties appearing ridiculous (or worse) to future generations, just as the cherished certainties of our ancestors appear ridiculous (or worse) to us.
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And yet, sometimes the questions seem to outnumber the certainties.
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This life is cruel, but there are a few certainties.
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There are three certainties in life — or so we thought.
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There are often no previous probabilities, and even fewer certainties.
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In just two weeks, all the usual certainties have gone.
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Most of quantum mechanics deals with probabilities rather than certainties.
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A return to classical certainties with the mellowing of age?
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But a day off in July also comes with some certainties.
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But health care has a way of scrambling existing political certainties.
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The sense that old certainties are crumbling has rocked America's allies.
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At this point, what few certainties we have are worth taking.
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They call "death and taxes" life's two certainties for a reason.
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But of course both sets of certainties could not be correct.
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"The two certainties these days seem to be — uncertainty," Weaver said.
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Those "certainties" could turn out to be wrong, wrong and wrong.
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I think that's the best thing about sport, there are no certainties.
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One of the few certainties is another delay and more economic pain.
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There are said to be two certainties in life: death and taxes.
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"There are very few certainties in life, especially in politics," Galston said.
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Sometimes situations become so intolerable that moral certainties are no longer meaningful.
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From the start, "Game of Thrones" put moral certainties to the sword.
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They are remarkably various, and they trouble debates that traffic in certainties.
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Over and over, the exhibition offers examples of apparent certainties being scrambled.
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It was transformative, knocking down what we assumed were Electoral College certainties.
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The new push for denaturalization investigations, though, threatens what were once certainties.
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There are not a lot of certainties in life, but death is.
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It's often said there are two certainties in life, death and taxes.
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To paraphrase an old saying, the only certainties are death and taxes.
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To the certainties of life that are death and taxes, add data breaches.
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Letter from Washington Two certainties, as Benjamin Franklin wrote, are death and taxes.
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IN THE bonfire of liberal certainties, Myanmar makes for an especially painful case.
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Real life has too many moving parts, too much unpredictability, too few certainties.
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It's been said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes.
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But here are a few certainties about dieting amid the sea of unknowns.
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We see hints of her grounded certainties in her instant attraction to Philip.
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It goes without saying that death and taxes are two of life's certainties.
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And while the structures still stand, the certainties we once held are sagging.
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For weeks, smelling like old onions became one of our micro lives' certainties.
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The next few years will be full of false certainties — and false uncertainties.
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OF LIFE's two certainties, death cannot be dodged even by the well-to-do.
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Certainties that are unpredictable (like vulnerabilities) tend to have derivative markets form around them.
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As the adage goes, there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes.
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In this sea of near-certainties, the biggest question mark is Carol Danvers herself.
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It's one of the great certainties of life: Tax returns are due every April.
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If you're a Game of Thrones fan, you've likely become accustomed to two certainties.
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"We have to choose between probabilities, not certainties, and that is difficult," he writes.
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But the challenge and genius of the film is its refusal to provide certainties.
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Mr Obama reflected a loss of confidence in the certainties of the neolibs and neocons.
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Benjamin Franklin once said that there are no certainties in life except death and taxes.
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The bloodshed in Syria has overturned some of the long-standing certainties of the region.
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And as middle-class certainties are being called into question, people are becoming more vocal.
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The only certainties in life may be death, taxes, and the presence of difficult people.
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Joll is a torturer, a man of implacable certainties, blinding "barbarian" prisoners, crushing their feet.
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"Some certainties that have guided our past outlooks are now not so certain at all."
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"Proliferating cyberconflict is creating a digital wild West with few rules or certainties," they continue.
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Better to cut loose the impractical and hold tight to tangible certainties, my parents advised.
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"Potential" being the operative word, because there are no certainties, even with four-year degrees.
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But with Britain's pending departure from the European Union, such certainties are now in question.
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The adamantine certainties of the Brexiteers are an ill fit for the ambiguities of Northern Ireland.
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It means staring down a life with fewer certainties and more vulnerabilities than a straight person's.
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They are testing old certainties, revisiting assumptions, and questioning how rules and institutions can be improved.
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In Western societies, for too long, there had been no victories, no glory and diminishing certainties.
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Both have risen in recent years as a response to the crumbling of Western civilization's certainties.
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When Levy's autobiographical essay begins, she is a middle-aged woman whose life's certainties have foundered.
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" The Mirror "There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and mediocre England displays in major tournaments.
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Where I'd expected fewer certainties, I discovered many more, and they all came in diametrically opposed pairs.
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One of the clear certainties of human existence is that technological innovation improves living standards over time.
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It was the deep appeal of such "certainties" that proved the most damning to the Branch Davidians.
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One of the few near-certainties in 2017 is that ordinary Russians will continue to feel the pinch.
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Excavations & Certainties continues at John Molloy Gallery (49 East 78th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through October 28.
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Gone were the simple certainties of Isaac Newton's physics, replaced with only probabilities of this outcome or that.
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Amid all the unknowns about what Mr Trump's presidency might mean, this is one of the few certainties.
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One of life's few certainties: if there's new Destiny content, Destiny fans are going to pick it apart.
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In my vulnerability, I am seeing my world without the Instagrammed filter of breezy certainties and perfectible moments.
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One of the few certainties in the technology sector is that the giants will clash with one another.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the summit that Beijing should remove barriers and improve legal certainties.
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But as other diplomatic certainties crumble, Britain is feeling grateful for the durability of its secret royal weapon.
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However, it could be argued that the need to track time can be lumped in with these certainties.
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Old chants are still sung and old certainties are repeated, but it's a threadbare act, lacking real conviction.
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The Bachelorette is returning to TV starting Monday night at 8 PM EST, bringing with it certain certainties.
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Governments or militaries may see opportunity -- or danger -- where before certainties of response meant they ruled it out.
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Washington conventional wisdom told us economic stagnation, higher taxes, greater regulation and fewer manufacturing jobs were metaphysical certainties.
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This process defies the certainties of an effective drug, yet provides lifelong tools for health and self-care.
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More generally, many worry about the implications for Russia in a world without the old rules and certainties.
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But Trump could count on a few certainties in those early debates: The conversation would have to move on.
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ARCHITECTS JOKE about three certainties in life: death, taxes and big building projects coming in late and over budget.
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But this conviction is no longer shared today by everyone, and certainties of international cooperation are coming under pressure.
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Sanctions are being evaded, talks are failing, and certainties pertaining to sustained nuclear deterrence are more uncertain than ever.
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Death and taxes aren't the world's only certainties; change is just as inevitable, and these animated shorts celebrate it.
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There are three certainties about Brexit: One—that it is the biggest political crisis in Britain in 60 years.
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One of the few certainties in these uncertain times is that no one can rely on anything Trump says.
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Generations of professors and students imagined the university to be a temple for productive challenge and perpetually questioned certainties.
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"I've got three certainties in my life: death, taxes and attacks from Breitbart," Ryan told the AP on Wednesday.
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In the essays, Graham unravels all such certainties, lightly trolling: How absurd that I'm paid to do this work!
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So we're in better shape than we were a few weeks ago, but there's no certainties here at all.
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Postwar political certainties that for so long seemed as solid as the Berlin Wall are collapsing and are being discarded.
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Even though America's intelligence machine is the world's most formidable, it deals mostly in judgments and informed speculation, not certainties.
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Next comes the attempt to "break down their ideological certainties" by finding a weak point in their armour of beliefs.
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It is to insist on understanding when judgment comes easily, and seek surprise and the overturning of one's own certainties.
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Rather than publicly acknowledging how volatile the Democratic race had always been, the media replaced old certainties with new ones.
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Before 1914, there was an assumed faith in progress, a general trust in the institutions and certainties of Western civilization.
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Living under lockdown: "In just two weeks, all the usual certainties have gone," writes an Opinion contributor living in Milan.
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But with Britain's pending departure from the European Union, certainties that once sustained the great city are now in question.
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The conflagration weakened the old order, shook old certainties and showcased what women could do, for the benefit of everyone.
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No matter how many times I rolled my eyes at the creed's outrageous certainties, I craved them just the same.
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"If there are any certainties, one will be that this party will eventually come to an end," Mr. Stack said.
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ONE by one, liberal democracies are waking up to find their certainties trampled by the march of close-the-borders populism.
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As the talks proceed, the crystalline certainties of the Brexit campaign will give way to difficult trade-offs and hard choices.
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Sinan wants to change or escape the duties that shaped his father's generation, yet envies the certainties that came with them.
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I've interviewed him a number of times now, and in doing so have picked up a few certainties about our chats.
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It does not neatly converge on truth along a smooth line, but rather jumps around as new knowledge disproves old certainties.
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If you secretly harbor the idea that Snapchat is frivolous or somehow a fad, it's time to re-examine your certainties.
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At first glance, then, it is curious that a man who has always dealt in certainties should now enter subjective territory.
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Those realities were far more mind-bending than any of the ancestry findings, with their wildly different percentages and ephemeral certainties.
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In this hyper-opinionated era, full of shrill certainties and warring ideologies, fierce facts and intractable positions, McElheny's orientation is especially welcome.
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On the contrary: I think that what I personally need is to be able to participate in the construction of these certainties.
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But like life, empires have a few certainties: taxation if the empire is to survive and death when the money is gone.
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There are just as many certainties; they are simply the opposite ones, whether on immigration, police violence toward African-Americans, or guns.
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They will seek a strong leader who offers simple certainties and a clear account of who is to blame for the chaos.
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"In all situations, we look for certainties; we need therapy, to feel that we are being guided, for comfort," Mr. Taleb said.
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There aren't a lot of certainties in sports, but as the N.F.L. season opens, here's one: The Patriots will make the playoffs.
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" Milley also made an interesting point that "in the world we deal in, we don't deal in certainties, we deal in probabilities.
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This anxious and fraught era is also a shrill one, full of loud pronouncements and heated certainties coming from every which way.
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Such collisions are near certainties across cosmological timespans as these objects swirl around the Sun, the vast majority packed between Jupiter and Mars.
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There are very few certainties in life, except for death, taxes, and the fact that you need to wear sunscreen every single day.
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With the grim certainties of climate change ahead of us, the question of whether anyone SHOULD live in Florida seems slightly more reasonable.
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The stark certainties of the cold-war spy world have given way to a new landscape: murky and in some ways more dangerous.
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He conceded his last year in charge had been his most difficult, steering a side considered medal certainties in the format's Olympic debut.
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While death and taxes may be life's only certainties, the deadlines (at last for taxes) have become less certain thanks to buggy software.
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Beyond Benjamin Franklin's two certainties in life of death and taxes, I would add a third: the enduring power of the human spirit.
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Let's focus on the few geopolitical certainties we know will follow the UK's exit from the European Union, on whatever terms it comes.
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There are some clues, I think, that come from the work of [University of Pennsylvania psychologist] Philip Tetlock and his "superforecasters" — which is that people who think not in terms of certainties but in terms of probabilities tend to do much better in forecasting and anticipating what is going to happen in the world than people who think in certainties.
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It is said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, but heartbreak is pretty high up there on the list.
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There are few known certainties in the world, but I'm starting to believe Garmin releasing a new wearable every month is one of them.
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A desire for roots and rootedness may be acquiring a new importance in the new global tangle, where certainties are hard to come by.
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The point of Sanders's speech was to chip away at tired certainties, to question fundamental beliefs, to break out of old ways of thinking.
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I am tempted to dismiss this debate, for all its callousness and its false certainties and its exploitation of Jason as a political tool.
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And while the captain rails against how all the old certainties are eroding, his wife conspires to drive him mad and lock him up.
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"For two and a half years I'd ridden on David's energy, carried along by his certainties," he states near the end of the book.
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He obviously sets no store in multilateralism or diplomacy, which has underpinned the certainties of the Atlantic alliance of the postwar decades until today.
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In the exhibition Excavations & Certainties, Theresa Hackett's paintings and Shari Mendelson's sculptures interact with a transcendence that turns the installation into its own immersive entity.
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What, then, did this lover of ancient certainties make of the fact that his venerable old church was careering towards the ideological and theological left?
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That is no surprise, for it was ideological certainties that led to the botched occupation of Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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As old certainties—like, say, the stability of the American government—crumble around us, we become weaker and more susceptible to the appeal of myth.
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There are a slew of questions that follow from these certainties: Will this cancellation further set back any attempt at compromise on reopening the government?
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But the fact that those visceral certainties can so easily be called into question offers a good reason to trust video less, rather than more.
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They watched, these unacknowledged servants of the imperial Republic, as certainties evaporated and precariousness spread and words lost meaning and money rode roughshod over sacrifice.
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Aside from a few certainties — climbing stages in the Alps and the Pyrenees and the finish in Paris — the race's structure allows for considerable flexibility.
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With its willingness to ride roughshod over all established certainties and ways of life, classical utopianism was too grandiose, too rationalist and ultimately too cold.
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In many ways Stella's work is still tethered to the powerful certainties that ruled abstract painting when he was a young man, and the force of his conviction and the depth of his resourcefulness to keep the dream alive are truly remarkable, but these certainties have long lost their sheen, leading to the unavoidable question: Does the world really need another piece by Frank Stella?
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There was no lack of information on who the women were and where the activity took place, with the murder investigation melting away their old certainties.
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The old rules and certainties of politics were revealed as worthless; a sensation that anything could happen—for better or for worse—struck the entire country.
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And this is hardly the first time in history when disruptive economic growth, technological advances and the fading of old certainties have driven people to terrorism.
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By polling so well for so long, Le Pen's presence in that run-off had been seen as one of the few certainties in the race.
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There are racing certainties and then there is the 22014-year-old American freestyle phenomenon who looks set for a golden haul in the Rio pool.
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Chaliy said many people in Crimea had hankered for the certainties of life in the Soviet Union, the last time the peninsula was ruled from Moscow.
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Venture capitalists usually take equity stakes in start-ups, gaining a say in how the company is run and legal and governance certainties over their investments.
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But since the show first aired, these certainties have been wilting in the face of new political forces and Mr. Macron's strategy of bridging old distinctions.
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Bret Stephens There aren't many certainties in politics, but here's one: Vladimir Putin will be re-elected to a fourth presidential term in Sunday's sham ballot.
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Sheikh Zayed wasn't the one who conjured up this museum, with its grand ambition to smash Islamic certainties and turn Bedouins into citizens of the world.
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Her argument is that old certainties about the relationship between employment and inflation appear to hold less water in this recovery than in those of the past.
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Her disdain for "citizens of nowhere" is not just a political ploy: she seriously thinks that Britain needs more provincial certainties as an antidote to rootless cosmopolitanism.
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The Republican nominee has trampled all over them" Nov 103th 2016 Nov 12th 2016: "His victory threatens old certainties about America and its role in the world.
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Ian McEwan's was silenced by her military husband's "iron certainties"; Andrew Motion's escaped into a world of books at odds with her spouse's guns and fishing rods.
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Dramsch says that measuring the level of stress in a fault is almost impossible, especially at depth, leaving us with probabilities instead of certainties of earthquakes happening.
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Hispanic and liberal Catholics love the present pontiff for his support for migrants and the global South; conservatives yearn for the metaphysical certainties offered by his predecessors.
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Alarmed by corruption and recession, Brazilians have elected a president who harks back to the certainties of a military dictatorship they rid themselves of three decades ago.
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Our civilisation, you say, rests on certainties such as the understanding of nature through science and the delivery of justice through law, and not on the unexpected.
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"The banking sector and the financial sector need clear certainties to invest in the Hong Kong market, in long-term infrastructure development and housing," Mr. Lee said.
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While it may be unclear whether racial bias played a role in the deaths of the two men in Illinois and Alabama, there are just two certainties.
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And no matter what we think we know, history is littered with the corpses of past scientific certainties later proven wrong at best and deadly at worst.
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Now, we're more than just strangers: We're millions of people who have shared the unique pain of seeing certainties fall apart, who have helped one another recover.
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Her absolute psychopathy is one of the few certainties of the twisting series—she kills with electrifying power, at one point lethally biting into an assailants neck.
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Often, there is a little fragment of hope, if only for a few more weeks of life, as medicine is almost always about probabilities rather than certainties.
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Ever since the revolt demolished the certainties of Chile's exceptionalism as an oasis of neoliberal success in the Latin America, he has been living two parallel lives.
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Former vice president Dick Cheney's "one percent doctrine" — that threats with a 1% chance of occurring must be treated as certainties and countered appropriately — still dominates decision-making.
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"We suffer a great deal today from the bogus certainties and precisions of the pseudo-sciences which include all the social sciences including economics," was his blunt appraisal.
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Has he, in fact, gained the gift of certain certainties, I ask, as we walk out of the exhibition on the day before it opens to the public.
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When he goes to a casino now, his blackjack sessions aren't certainties, but Lacob has far better odds of succeeding at them than anyone else at the table.
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"Concerto al-Quds" is full of questions, as if in rebuke of the certainties of dogma: How can man, creator of meaning, draw his destiny into one utterance?
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Just as with El Niño, because there are many other variables that affect the weather, there are no certainties of specific La Niña-related effects in specific locales.
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Absent of America's positive influence on global affairs, Trump's populist style of politics, increasingly aped by other leaders, will leave us all longing for bygone certainties and stability.
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What a critical story for us at this juncture in our lives, when we, too, were facing so many changes, losses, challenges to the certainties we had known.
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"If there are any certainties, one will be that this party will eventually come to an end," James Stack, president of InvesTech Research, told me a year ago.
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And that makes the music right for the world outside: the persistent breakdown of all structures, the vacated certainties and the welcoming randomness, the retreating future and imminent prehistory.
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How, they ask, will he handle the delicate task of coalition-building in a country where old certainties are going up in flames like rum on a banane flambée?
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Music is a changeable beast that doesn't carry with it many certainties, but The xx's live show is always a sure bet.
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There are a few certainties in life: The sun will rise in the east, The Bachelor will be everyone's favorite guilty pleasure and we'll see flexible displays at CES.
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Following a period of profound political, economic and diplomatic disruption, old certainties have been washed away but no one is certain yet about the new rules of the game.
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What we do know is that we need more events that provoke us to ask such questions and discard tired certainties that may be no more than dangerous caricatures.
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You are guilty only if you break the law, not if you offend the government's ideological certainties or refuse to be a cheerleader of the government of the day.
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In that sense, the title "Comedian" is ironic — for Mr. Cattelan, like all the best clowns, is a tragedian who makes our certainties as slippery as a banana peel.
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Russia rift with US intelligence agencies Trump has wide latitude to shift US foreign policy priorities and examine and change the certainties that have underpinned Washington's global posture for decades.
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With their kids around them, Dre (Anderson) and Bow (Ross) had to navigate a conversation with more questions than certainties, especially as the couple themselves seemed to agree on little.
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There he finds the pundit class of the present-day United States, a tangle of arms and legs and laptops, with piteous cries and smug certainties rising in a chorus.
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Ezra Koenig — the band's singer, guitarist and songwriter now that Rostam Batmanglij has left the band — sees crumbling promises and failing certainties everywhere, whether or not the music admits it.
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Eight years removed from the White House, Obama's lasting legacy and his status as the most popular Democratic in the country is one of the few certainties in this muddled primary.
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Medicine contains few certainties, but here was one: This patient did not have pneumonia, not if all the basic rules by which we assess and treat infection were to be respected.
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What marks Father Sergei's text out is its absolute freedom from the kind of sloppy nostalgia for Soviet certainties which is commonly heard in Russia, in both secular and religious circles.
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But there is something bigger and more interesting going on in the broad centre of British politics: the collapse of old certainties and a desperate attempt to produce a new synthesis.
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The European STOXX 600 benchmark rose about 1%, helped by a 6% surge in automakers and growing certainties of policy easing from the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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The European STOXX 600 benchmark rose over 1%, helped by a 6% surge in automakers and growing certainties of policy easing from the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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The European STOXX 230 benchmark rose about 226%, helped by a 232% surge in automakers and growing certainties of policy easing from the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Like compulsive gamblers who react to every losing streak by changing their betting strategy rather than quitting outright, political handicappers adjust to every stunning campaign development by unapologetically peddling new certainties.
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Macron came to office by way of a fission of certainties, picking through the bombed-out middle to win his first election—for anything, ever—at the age of thirty-nine.
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The convergence of stubbornly stagnant incomes, unpayable student loans, unaffordable housing and health care, racist policing systems, entrenched misogyny, and a looming climate catastrophe has displaced long-standing political certainties in America.
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Four decades' worth of minimal, just about functional conversation has left us completely unprepared for this juncture, even though its arrival was one of the few certainties that could have been predicted.
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Even if his optimism is well placed, however, there's nothing like being sick to make a person toss that kind of intelligence aside in favor of the certainties offered by modern medicine.
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HermanusCreditCreditJoao Silva/The New York Times In a world so unpredictable, we reassure ourselves with the knowledge that there will always remain a few enduring certainties: The Earth revolves around the sun.
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What's unclear is how Germany will react with so many certainties shaken: the shape of the EU, relations with the U.S., the stability of German politics, and the durability of economic growth.
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Populism and nationalism have been spreading through many corners of the world, fed by people's frustration with globalization, loss of identity and moral certainties, and fears of terrorism and floods of refugees.
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By selecting preexisting "things," or what could be called factual certainties, for his motifs, Johns is able to attain the opposite, a domain of uncertainties, which is why many regard him as hermetic.
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About the only certainties are the usual ones: that a genius cap won't arrive anytime soon, and that any brain-zapping gizmo that provides real benefit also is likely to come with risk.
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Instead of what she calls "generative grappling" with the unresolved questions of the era, our "common life" is marked by debates between "competing certainties," each with the goal of annihilating the other position.
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We live in a time that teaches how outrage can turn to a shrug, how the unthinkable repeated over and over can induce moral numbness, how a madman's manic certainties can overwhelm reason.
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For Johns, factual certainties, such as the American flag or a plaster cast of a body part, enable him to dwell in "uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts," and not reach after "fact," which would be redundant.
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Quantum mechanics replaced wholesale the centuries-old notion of a clockwork, deterministic universe with a reality that deals in probabilities rather than certainties—one where the very act of measurement affects what is measured.
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As Donald Trump reaches Day 50 of his presidency, halfway to the fabled hundred days, here are some of the "known knowns" about him — certainties we have learned since the inauguration: Trump is Trump.
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"Facebook is done with quality journalism — deal with it," says media thinker Frederic Filloux, who says Facebook is moving on from news after killing such longstanding industry certainties as brand, authorship and business model.
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Each of those four forces tears at the fabric of the political and economic certainties that have defined post-Cold War Europe and Germany, coming in the thirtieth anniversary year of the country's reunification.
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But upon closer inspection, much of Europe's "new" direction -- as vaguely defined as it currently is -- sticks to Cold War-era certainties and even, in part, reflects aspects of US President Donald Trump's worldview.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Among the few certainties in the current U.S. political environment are that immigration will be a flashpoint, abortion will remain divisive and Texas will sue the administration of President Barack Obama.
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Death and taxes may be the only two certainties in life (according to Ben Franklin), but tax compliance software provider Avalara has raised $96 million with a pitch to make one a lot less painful.
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These services' ancestral algorithms are based on estimates and probabilities, not certainties, but they nevertheless claim to distill the self into a series of appealingly specific data points onto which personal narratives can be written.
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I wonder if memorizing gibberish will damage everyone's ability to communicate; if cheating with language will erode the certainties of spelling; and if I'll ever be able to play a clean game of Boggle again.
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WHEN the pro-business Free Democrats walked out of coalition talks with Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU alliance and the Green Party on Sunday night, myriad certainties about Germany's politics and its next government seemed to dissolve.
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Laws like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ensure that our actions as a society follow the moral certainties we share: that no child be denied access to knowledge and opportunity because of their unique circumstance.
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LONDON — Certainties unravel with alarming force in the dizzying "The Doctor," now at the Almeida Theater, the adventurous North London playhouse where Robert Icke is stepping down with this production after six years as associate director.
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While there's not a lot of nuance in this world of moral certainties, Pon does a bang-up job packing in skyscraper-scaling, flying (on airborne mo-peds), hand-to-hand combat and high-tech espionage.
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The ongoing heated debates over whether the investigation into possible collusive relationships between the Trump team and the Kremlin is akin to Watergate or the Salem witch trials present conflicting "certainties" and continue to fascinate us.
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"These scientific and national security judgments have not undergone a rigorous independent and adversarial scientific peer review to examine the certainties and uncertainties of climate science, as well as implications for national security," the document said.
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The inflection point comes after many of the certainties of central banking were shattered by the 2008 financial crisis, and the Fed has spent more time trying to stimulate inflation than control it in the past decade.
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The self-regarding adults, caught in the gap between the certainties of an older generation's brutality and a younger one's impatience for change, are free to spend their lives dithering and whining and finding excuses for themselves.
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The spread of the virus to Italy "has called into question our certainties," because "it makes defense systems in the face of threats to our security more complicated, if not unnecessary," he wrote in Monday's La Repubblica.
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It all means that the 45th president will take office with foreign allies and adversaries alike puzzled -- and, in some cases, alarmed -- that the certainties which have underpinned US foreign policy for generations no longer seem to apply.
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Johnson said Britain had become "mired in a fog of self-doubt" and that there had been a stealthy retreat over the last 18 months from what he called the "bright certainties" of May's earlier vision of Brexit.
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It's a no-brainer as far as insurance goes, because unless you live (and have died) beyond "The Wall", or live with the Walking Dead, you're going to face the second of Ben Franklin's certainties at some point.
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For motorists in New York, the only things that may rival death and taxes as certainties are traffic and tolls — the latter of which, for the better part of the last 227 years, have been collected by hand.
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Climate change will reveal itself as a list of certainties we can no longer take for granted: the dependability of the seasons, the height of the tides, what grows where, that the future will look like the past.
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These artists of America's most exciting scene are as implicated in the global economy as the rest of us, and finding their way through an art system where the old certainties about place and rootedness no longer hold.
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Her Britain is the Britain of the provincial Tory heartlands: a Britain of solid values and rooted certainties, hard work and upward mobility, a Britain where people try to get ahead but also have time for the less fortunate.
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Direct experience is the basis for his pessimistic view of the kinds of economic aid programs and good governance schemes that long characterized the developing world's push to modernity, old certainties embodied by organizations like the International Monetary Fund.
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The next president will confront "black swans" -- disruptive events that no one sees coming -- but they will also face some certainties, chief among them that foes will test their resolve not long after they move into the Oval Office.
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In that sense, Orlando feels like an artifact from and for the future, a character who refuses to be bound by conventions, and who invites us to consider the possibility that all of our certainties are in fact contingencies.
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Through her poetry she shows us how to die in the most mundane of circumstances by disposing of our certainties; she herself might be wary of life's little pleasures, but nevertheless indulges in them: What did you do today?
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Between the assassination of business associates like Lee Christie and takeover threats from ambitious insiders like Angus Lafferty, it's clear to Nate that "the old boss, and the old certainties, were gone" and the leadership is up for grabs.
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The students' certainties and self-entitlement were just as cartoonlike in Juliette's view as they had been in Noah's, and perhaps that's the point — we're seeing the young people through jaded, middle-aged eyes — but it's not very interesting.
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As species of personality go, the writer and the bureaucrat are closely related: they're deskbound creatures who enjoy the comfortable certainties of Microsoft Office and dazzling us with wordcraft, be it small-print legalese or the impenetrable prose of literary fiction.
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After Fillon's surprise win and Hollande's shock decision to not seek re-election, three people who had dominated politics for decades were consigned to campaign history, shattering many of the certainties as to what will happen on May, 7 2017.
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The voice, aggrieved and apocalyptic, mingles world-weary pronouncements ("You conquer people by telling them of battles, kings, elephants, and marvellous beings"—a freighted allusion to Kipling) with hot-and-bothered exhortations ("Your tough body keeps clinging to its certainties").
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Though the book cautions against the putative certainties of "evidence-based medicine" and presents a case for the superiority of clinical wisdom over statistical analysis, Kramer evinces such humility that no one could accuse him of being a pro-medication ideologue.
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In his statement, he said he looked forward to seeing the French fans in Paris next year, but at this stage of his career, with little left to prove and plenty of mileage on his balletic frame, there are no certainties.
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But voters around the world are learning to be wary of certainties, and some analysts see a path to victory for Ms. Le Pen if her motivated supporters turn out in force and enough of Mr. Macron's supporters stay home.
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Two certainties: Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinStrap yourself in: 2900's likely to be quite a ride Nixon historian questions possible Trump visit to Russia Putin's next aggression MORE will continue to create trouble, including trying to mess with American elections.
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"There are still living survivors, and already their past has been turned into a kind of no man's land where false certainties and true arrogance rule," Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust survivor, wrote in a prescient 1989 New York Times article.
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There are few certainties in New Hampshire politics, but for most of the 217 campaign there have been two: Donald J. Trump has led in statewide polls on the Republican side, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has led on the Democratic side.
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But Merrie England was never as hermetically sealed in its certainties as the ideological fixity of the Cold War suggests; it was always vulnerable to the blast of accident, the whim of changed minds, the healing of laughter and the warmth of mercy.
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The left-right certainties have given way to an amorphous and fluid body politic torn apart by massive immigration, borderless Europe and France's epochal identity crisis — a grave danger in a country where rising unemployment and poverty continue to feed social unrest.
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One can deeply empathize with Afghans who want to live peaceful lives, U.S. veterans who want the war to end, humanitarians who want to protect gains in human rights, Americans who want U.S. troops home, and security experts who seek counterterrorism certainties.
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The certainties of racial superiority and a right to rule justified by a higher civilization floundered and seemed to drown in the years following, as liberals and leftists and a new generation of young radicals repudiated and sneered at their imperialist elders.
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While some people hate conservative Muslims for their views on women and gays, others, who feel adrift in this more secular age, look to a leader like Mr. Wilders to bring back the old certainties of a more traditional and ethnically homogeneous society.
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But as I walked into Excavations & Certainties at John Molloy Gallery on the Upper East Side, a two-artist exhibition pairing Theresa Hackett's paintings with Shari Mendelson's sculptures, a similar sense of perfection imperceptibly set in, a seed of tranquility growing into an enveloping presence.
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" He condemns those who seek to judge those whose lives appear to be at odds with church teaching, writing: "God is mysteriously present in the life of every person, in a way that he himself chooses, and we cannot exclude this by our presumed certainties.
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Because nobody knows how the next few decades will unfold, now is not the time to lock in a price One of the few certainties is that Hinkley is not the sort of power station that any rich country will want for much longer.
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The Chinese action shows how proliferating cyberconflict is creating a digital wild West with few rules or certainties, and how difficult it is for the United States to keep track of the malware it uses to break into foreign networks and attack adversaries' infrastructure.
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Too young to have experienced 1950s school drills or to remember the heightened anxieties of the early 1980s, we've viewed nuclear war as a terrifying improbability, especially compared with the terrifying certainties that we know all too well: global warming, terrorism, lone-wolf gunmen.
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If the panic in Sweden has been less than in Germany, the political impact has been similar: the rise of a far-right, anti-immigrant, nationalist party — Alternative for Germany in one case, and the Sweden Democrats in the other — that is upending old certainties.
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Most important, if Bush's faith gave him certainties that became overweening and dangerous during his Presidency, why did they not so manifest themselves while he was on the road to Damascus fifteen years earlier, or when he was inveighing against nation-building in 20083?
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BOURNEMOUTH, England, July 2 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said a global trade war and a no-deal Brexit were growing possibilities but were not certainties, and the central bank was focusing on the medium-term inflation outlook to guide its stance on interest rates.
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"[The] ordinary trauma of an 11-year-old girl coming to terms with a new life and school while losing all her old, comforting, childish certainties has become a glittering, bravura piece of cinema, a comedy both wise and tender," wrote critic Kate Muir for The Times.
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The only certainties appear to be that the measure will create more tension with the United States' top allies, further hurt the Cuban economy and play well with the anti-Castro Cuban American electorate in the swing state of Florida ahead of the 2020 presidential elections.
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At the same time, we too often seek to subordinate the creative, pleasure-giving aspects of our lives to supposedly more consequential areas of experience, stuffing the aesthetic dimensions of existence into the boxes that hold our religious beliefs, our political dogmas or our moral certainties.
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The ability to walk away from failures while sweeping up the profit from successes can be frustrating to watch, but such a shift would require a rewrite of corporate capital and structure rules, which would be a stretch – and could undermine the important legal certainties underpinning the system.
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What is the least-worst option between Boris Johnson's bombastic false certainties about Britain's rosy future outside the EU and Jeremy Corbyn's deceptive claim to be able to negotiate a better deal, keeping the U.K. closer to the EU while restricting freedom of movement for workers from Europe?
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Unearthing memories of his early days as a medical student, and the experiences that shaped him as a young surgeon, he explores the difficulties of a profession that deals in probabilities rather than certainties, and where the overwhelming urge to prolong life can come at a tragic cost for patients and those who love them.
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Excavations & Certainties at John Molloy Gallery on the Upper East Side was another show that brought together sculpture and painting but in an altogether different way, featuring recycled plastic vessels by Shari Mendelson and thickly articulated abstractions by Theresa Hackett, whose interaction unexpectedly transformed the space around them into a construct of uncanny, unitary perfection.
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Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise and their fall.
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" The paper also said that the documents add that although the Trump administration has said previously that climate change is a threat, "these scientific and national security judgments have not undergone a rigorous independent and adversarial scientific peer review to examine the certainties and uncertainties of climate science, as well as implications for national security.
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When it comes to The Bachelor, there are a few certainties: There's a girl who is not there to make friends, there will be several shots of the Bachelor standing on the edge of a cliff, looking contemplative and, of course, there will be the one contestant who boozes a bit harder than the rest on night one.
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The Game of Thrones Season 7 finale left us with a few certainties: The Wall has been broken, allowing the Night King and his undead army into Westeros; Jon Snow is actually Aegon Targaryen, rightful heir to Westeros; and Sansa and Arya are Westeros' most badass team, united against anyone that means to do their family harm.
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Which is why if Pinker and others are genuinely worried about a waning appreciation of the inquiring scientific spirit, they should consider the possibility that some of their own smug secular certainties might be part of the problem — that they might, indeed, be stifling the more comprehensive kind of curiosity upon which the scientific enterprise ultimately depends.
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Following the curatorial concept of Katia Arfara, curator of the festival (spanning across contemporary art, theater, performance and dance), Fujii engaged in what Arfara called "the field of an expanded archaeology questioning scientific certainties and historical linearities", exploring not just the obvious relation between history and archaeology, but the instrumentalization of one in the service of the other.
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Lizabeth Cohen's new book, " Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age " (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is an attempt to salvage the villain's reputation, mostly by putting it in the Tragedy of Good Intentions basket instead of the Arrogance of Élitist Certainties basket, albeit recognizing that these are adjacent baskets.
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And yet, it's the middle of the night as I write these words, and I can't help but think back to the middle of that night one year ago, when Wolf Blitzer was trying to come to terms with the unraveling of his certainties as my girlfriend slept beside me and the snow came down on the northern fields outside.
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Indeed it was precisely because they were well-informed that they were able to hold their opposing certainties so firmly: They had access to a wealth of detail, a rich trove of information, plus in some cases (once I reached Washington, especially) personal knowledge, that could be sifted through at a moment's notice to pull up a plausible rebuttal to any argument that threatened their certainty.
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" In today's polarized environment, where the internet has let people increasingly retreat to their own silos (talking only to like-minded folks, who amplify their certainties and biases), the president sees novels and other art (like the musical "Hamilton") as providing a kind of bridge that might span usual divides and "a reminder of the truths under the surface of what we argue about every day.
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As a result, it's far safer to operate within the prevailing consensus—to conform to the dictates of a pack that derives its conclusions from polls and fundraising data—than to say ruefully after a wrong call, "Well, I had this hunch...."
In theory, the 2016 campaign should have served as electroshock treatment—a violent dose of uncut reality that should have cured the press pack of its certainties about anything.
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McMaster is not the only Trump adviser whose fate is uncertain: rather, uncertainty is one of the only certainties in the Trump administration, where the boss' views are constantly changing, shaped not only by cable news coverage that streams around the clock from dozens of televisions throughout the West Wing, but also by the opinions of a dozen or so Trump friends and advisers who are regularly pinged for advice.
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Maybe the inconsistencies in the hero and his poem that have distressed readers and critics—the certainties alternating with doubt, the sudden careening from coolness to high emotion, the poet's admiring embrace of an empire whose moral offenses he can't help cataloguing, the optimistic portrait of a great nation rising haunted by a cynical appraisal of Realpolitik at work—aren't problems of interpretation that we have to solve but, rather, the qualities in which this work's modernity resides.
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In a recent statement from Qualcomm in advance of its annual shareholder meeting — rescheduled yesterday for April 5 — where a vote will be taken regarding the Broadcom acquisition/merger bid, the following statement was made: Since evaluating and subsequently rejecting the $82 per share offer on February 8, Qualcomm has repeatedly and genuinely attempted to engage with Broadcom on issues including price, regulatory and other closing certainties, including most recently at meetings on February 14 and February 23.
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Here's the IEA again: Some certainties that have guided our past outlooks are now not so certain at all: that oil prices falling to twelve-year lows will lead to a strong demand growth spurt; that oil prices falling to twelve-year lows will lead to a mass shut-in of so-called high cost oil production; and not least that oil prices falling to twelve-year lows will force the largest group of producing countries to cut output to stabilise oil prices.
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