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considerable
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David Lewis, chairman, said the year started with a considerable amount of uncertainty and despair in the travel industry.
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This cycle causes considerable market uncertainty affecting the occupiers, developers, investors and planners involved in new building.
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There is still considerable uncertainty , for example, about the privatization process.
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In addition, considerable uncertainty must remain until we know government's firm views on our future.
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The existence of sub-sects such as the Zadokites and the Nazareans has generated considerable confusion and uncertainty among biblical scholars.
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As there is considerable clinical uncertainty and variation in practice in this condition such debate is to be welcomed.
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Such experience would prove highly disturbing and create considerable uncertainty for business, especially importers and exporters, in that country.
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During 1988 there was considerable uncertainty as to whether a slowing down of spending was taking place.
economic
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The increasing internationalization of Chlor-Chemicals, both in marketing and production also helps provide a buffer against economic uncertainties .
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A decrease in economic uncertainty allows the C11L curve to become flatter.
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Five other states have passed similar moratoria, citing the economic uncertainty of nuclear power's future.
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There are too many people who face economic uncertainty .
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The preceding months of wrangling were the cause of a great deal of economic uncertainty .
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Contingent workers receive lower wages, less fringes, fewer paid holidays, and must accept greater economic risks and uncertainty .
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They are also a good hedge against all the political and economic uncertainties raging in Britain this Guy Fawkes week.
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Some investors buy gold as a safe haven in times of political and economic uncertainty .
great
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Events moved quickly, though as Cullingworth's history reveals, not without great uncertainty and confusion in Whitehall.
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Futures and options markets began when tankers tried to hedge against the great uncertainty of weather and agricultural markets.
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Nevertheless, because of the greater uncertainties in the foreign exchange markets, more attention needs to be paid to currency risk.
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The greatest uncertainty concerns Nelson Mandela's health.
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It is one example of the great uncertainty that now shadows Hong Kong.
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The announcement heralds a period of great uncertainty as the implications of these changes are fully worked through.
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But it is in politics and in the broader field of civilization that the greatest uncertainties arise.
inherent
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But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it.
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Both EDs would require auditors to refer in their reports to inherent uncertainties affecting the accounts.
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However, the proposals for added emphasis paragraphs in respect of disclosures about inherent uncertainties have a number of drawbacks.
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But the survey has failed to detect any improvement in confidence and the institute is blaming political uncertainties .
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Copenhagen: Shares eased as political uncertainty and an ailing bond market reduced trade.
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With so much at stake, political uncertainty is the last thing that investors want.
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Higher taxes and political uncertainty would deter investment and destroy jobs.
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During the next few months London could be rocked by political uncertainty .
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They are also a good hedge against all the political and economic uncertainties raging in Britain this Guy Fawkes week.
■ NOUN
principle
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After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle .
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It has been noted that the quantum limit has its origin in the following expression of the uncertainty principle .
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Real togetherness Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle .
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The Heisenberg uncertainty principle tells us that.
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Einstein's general relativity is what is called a classical theory; that is, it does not incorporate the uncertainty principle .
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One therefore has to find a new theory that combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle .
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The human brain, however, is also subject to the uncertainty principle .
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The effects of the uncertainty principle will then become very important and seem to point to some remarkable results.
■ VERB
add
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These sorts of kick-start measures add uncertainty to the economy.
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The crisis in Chechnya added to the uncertainty .
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Either will do, but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets.
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The need to sift and correct the information put out by companies adds cost and uncertainty to the market's pricing function.
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Love added uncertainty , love lavished all her extravagant colours and textures.
cause
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These fluctuations in interest rates will cause further uncertainty and further shifts in the speculative demand for money.
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I and my colleagues understand the anxiety caused by uncertainties like this and will clarify the position as early as possible.
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This cycle causes considerable market uncertainty affecting the occupiers, developers, investors and planners involved in new building.
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There have been many recent changes in government intervention programmes causing damaging uncertainty .
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Children are also sensitive to stress caused by anxiety, uncertainty and economic hardship.
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Again, the introduction of new fields causes uncertainty .
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His referendum had caused great uncertainty .
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Donald's offer on behalf of the company to buy a round of drinks had been ambiguous and caused uncertainty among us.
create
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The possibilities for current and prospective changes in such policies are creating uncertainties over the future of the rural environment.
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The Raiders created some of the uncertainty , given their quarterback-swapping conversations with Atlanta.
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This lack of guidance may create other uncertainties .
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However, the Panel will not allow an offeror to rely on a pre-condition indefinitely as this creates uncertainty in the market.
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But isolation from colleagues also creates uncertainty .
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Such experience would prove highly disturbing and create considerable uncertainty for business, especially importers and exporters, in that country.
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Ambush marketing creates a further uncertainty over any estimates of the value of sports sponsorship.
deal
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Management is about dealing with uncertainty , you can never obtain perfect information.
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They must deal creatively with uncertainty instead of futilely trying to eliminate it.
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How do people deal with uncertainty ?
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The company dealt with uncertainty through a flexible organizational style, aided by a rapidly evolving information network.
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It is supposed to end the uncertainty surrounding the limits of control of young people in residential care.
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Hong Kong politicians called on Mr Major to end months of uncertainty by immediately appointing a new Governor.
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But now the Forestry Commission has decided to end the uncertainty by announcing plans to turn it into a wood.
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A decade later, the local community's delighted that the Forestry Commission's decided to end the uncertainty .
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The benefits of lower interest rates, ending exchange rate uncertainty and reducing business transaction costs are too powerful to ignore.
face
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I recognise that companies are under considerable pressures and that we face a period of uncertainty .
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There are too many people who face economic uncertainty .
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Many are still facing the uncertainty of life in refugee camps a year after leaving their homes.
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Residents face their own uncertainties , worried about their homes and property.
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When she left her job she faced a period of uncertainty while she tried to prove that her idea had potential.
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Last year they faced uncertainty over their jobs when the Lewis's group went bust and called in the receivers.
increase
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The impending retirement of Mr Arias, Nobel prize winner and the main motivator, has increased uncertainty .
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Associating democracy with fear certainly multiplies the ambiguities and increases the uncertainties .
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They had experienced the break-up of the Bretton Woods system and increasing international financial uncertainty .
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Perception is biased towards recognition and each successful achievement reduces uncertainty .
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Providing information that reduces uncertainty is a second way a department can increase its power base.
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A large quantity of information is needed in order to reduce this uncertainty to an acceptable level.
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If there is a downturn in the economy, sudden pressure can be placed on sales to reduce this uncertainty .
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They reduce uncertainty and hence anxiety about the future.
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I can only reduce the painful uncertainty and bewilderment of those first few days by learning relevant information quickly.
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Cognitive social psychologists assume that it is pan of human nature to reduce uncertainty by processing the external stimulus world through schemata.
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Such an argument runs rather against the more usual one that science, in the long run, reduces uncertainty .
reflect
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Like most modern literature, the new narrative reflects the ontological uncertainty of contemporary man.
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Gore's language reflected that uncertainty .
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This range of almost 44 % is abnormally wide, reflecting even greater uncertainty than usual about what is driving currencies.
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Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour.
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The price range reflects the uncertainty involved in the novel technology that will be needed to build large syn-gas plants.
remove
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This would remove the uncertainty and leave firms free to operate unconstrained within the legally created framework.
resolve
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The survey will inevitably resolve such jurisdictional uncertainties .
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But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty .
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In his speech yesterday to the Conservative Party conference, Mr Lawson did nothing to resolve the uncertainty .
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We are carrying out a study now and we shall seek to resolve that uncertainty as soon as we can.
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Further trials need to be done to resolve that uncertainty .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flicker of emotion/uncertainty/excitement etc
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I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem.
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Ruins, she thought, with a flicker of excitement.
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Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Life is full of uncertainties and problems.
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There is a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the inmates could know nothing of the future, only the uncertainty of their terrible present.
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Did his supportive family have to withstand the same uncertainty ?
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Fourth, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty is likely to yield benefits in terms of higher growth rates of intra-union trade and investment.
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Future trends in marital status Future trends in marital status are subject to some uncertainty .
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In such a climate of unbalance, of moral uncertainty there is bound to come a period of esthetic drought.
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Main reasons seem to be persistent low profitability among farmers and their uncertainty about the future.
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People live from day to day in a world full of uncertainties.
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With that she departed, leaving the young man full of ardor and decision, all his former uncertainty and hesitation gone.