Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

Certainly, he must recognize its power and attempt to ascertain its influence on the flow of history, but he must not confuse the natural and the mundane with the divine.

Certainly it isn't making the President happy, and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever he can and how he hopes to do better next year.

Certainly its composer was an ascending star on a new world horizon.

Certainly, one of the best ways of warning the world against anti-Semitism is to demonstrate its workings as a dangerous weapon.

Certainly, the history of Rome before that date is not as secure as it later becomes, but enough material remains to give a good picture of the development of the city and its institutions.

Certainly the Japanese navy had performed well, but its opponents had been weak, and it was not invincible ... Tōgō's victory set Japan on a path that would eventually lead her " to the Second World War.

) Certainly, the most accurate navigation system of its day.

Certainly by the mid nineteenth century, all three instruments had been modified to have a very powerful sound, and each can hold its own in a modern ensemble.

Certainly aware of the difficult position that military rule had placed the Soviets in internationally ( and perhaps not quite sure to what degree the Soviets shared its views of the revolt ’ s source ), the Politburo also resolved to ask Moscow not to immediately abandon “ the measures to prevent the intrusion of fascist bandits from West Berlin ” once martial law was lifted in East Berlin.

Certainly, there was what he calls eliminationist antisemitism and its impact increased as the century matured ... But antisemitism came in different forms, and Goldhagen puts all antisemitism in the same basket, including the liberal type that wanted to see the Jews disappear by assimilation and conversion ... The vast majority of German antisemitics did not wish to abolish formal Jewish emancipation.

Certainly, the live-wire actor's amoral lunatic, a fiend who delights in pushing crippled wheelchair using women down stairs, is the primary ( and perhaps only ) reason to sit through Henry Hathaway's over-praised 1947 noir, a jumbled piece of cinematic crime fiction that's visually elegant ( having been neorealistically shot on-location throughout Manhattan ) but regularly confused about its own point of view.

Certainly, the U-boat threat was well appreciated, but the First Lord's account of the time and its events makes no mention of the need to stop the threat at the strait.

Certainly, the Polish resistance was the largest resistance movement until the German invasion of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1941 ; in the last years of the war those two resistances would rival AK in its strength ( see Resistance during World War II for a more detailed analysis ).

" Certainly it was ahead of its time in turning back from the acid house then popular to more traditional songwriting in the vein of The Kinks or The Small Faces.

Perhaps as fine a piece of work of its kind as this country can show … Certainly the manner of this house has not in this country been better done, not only in terms of stylistic authenticity, but in terms of pure architecture, meaning good taste in selectivity, in elimination, in execution.

Certainly, the series was not seen by its intended audience due to its inclusion in the " Ministry ".

Certainly its use of space emphasized the dramatic possibilities of 3-D and reveals, as more than one person has observed, that the device had largely been squandered in other films made at the time.

Pitchfork Media criticized the song's " uncanny resemblance to ' Clocks '" and continued " Certainly, it rarely hurts to stick with what works, but this is not just a near-exact replica of its successful predecessor ; it's also a less memorable song riding a piano hook that has so deeply infiltrated the pop-culture landscape that I've become numb to it.

Certainly its generally flat landscapes, ' big skies ' and comparative emptiness make this a landscape that remains uncommon in the generally densely populated United Kingdom.

Certainly the He 162 lent itself to the use of non-war critical materials in its construction and was relatively simple to assemble and build, all things the Japanese were capable of doing.

Certainly many problems remained to be resolved, including re-establishing royal authority over the provinces and resolving the complex issue of which barons should control the contested lands and estates after the long civil war.

Certainly, an exhaustive search on all possible combination of keys ( simple bruteforce ) would take 2 < sup > k · j </ sup > attempts if j encryptions has been used with different keys in each encryption, where each key is k bits long.

After the war, a friend showed Hathcock a passage written by Ernest Hemingway: " Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter.

Certainly, their careers were not long ones.

Certainly the ballad was sung with a considerable amount of enthusiasm at R. A. O. B Lodge meetings as recently as the mid 1950s by many of our more long serving members.

Certainly the goose has long ago parted company with the printers ' wayzgoose, which was usually held in July, though it had no fixed season.

Certainly in writing up his Statistical Account of the parish in 1796 the Rev Adam Forman seemed comfortable in his use of the term Castlemilk for the former estate of Cassiltoun.

Certainly, both industries had need for people who did this job even if the term had not come into use.

Certainly, though, iron was essential to military success by the time the State of Qin had unified China ( 221 BC ).

Certainly, Wellington declared afterwards that " the success of the battle turned upon the closing of the gates at Hougoumont ".

: Certainly few countries, if any, have to tell of such a painful apostolate, or of one which has had such success.

Certainly a major contributor to the Rendezvous's success was an aggressive value-pricing strategy that made the Rendezvous US $ 6, 500 less than a comparably equipped Acura MDX and US $ 8, 000 less than the Lexus RX300.

Certainly the initial success of the cheese did not turn into steady long-term sales.

Certainly, Revelations was by no means a failure, and it probably would have been a greater popular success given the right backing.

" Certainly, the officials should be responsible for the success and failure for the policies for which they are responsible ," Tung said

When Marcus Livius, the governor of Tarentum, claimed the merit of recovering the town, Fabius rejoined, " Certainly, had you not lost it, I would have never retaken it.

Certainly, Geoffrey seems to have made use of the list of Arthur's twelve battles against the Saxons found in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, along with the battle of Camlann from the Annales Cambriae and the idea that Arthur was still alive.

Certainly many entries of the Man ' yōshū have a continental tone, earlier poems having Confucian or Taoist themes and later poems reflecting on Buddhist teachings.

Certainly, Bertrand Russell seems to have espoused such a view in his early philosophical career ( Sainsbury, R. M., Russell, London 1979 ).

Certainly something special happened on that night in 1969, and we've made it more special in our need to have what I call a point of origin ... it's more complex than saying that it all started with Stonewall.

Certainly, other Bishops were depicted bearing the arms of a knight without comment, such as Archbishop Turpin who bears both a spear and a sword named " Almace " in The Song of Roland or Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, who also appears to have fought as a knight during the First Crusade, an expedition that Odo also joined.

Certainly, it can be ( and often is ) argued that without the Mongol destruction of Kievan Rus ' that Moscow, and subsequently the Russian Empire, would not have risen.

Certainly Roman forts existed north of the wall, and forts as far north as Cramond may have been in long-term occupation.

A medieval variation is alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer ’ s Canterbury Tales at the beginning of the “ Knight ’ s Tale ,” where it says: “ Certainly, if it were not too lengthy to listen to, I would have told you fully how the realm of Scythia was conquered by Theseus and his knights ; of the great battle on that occasion between the Athenians and the Amazons ; how Hippolyta, the fair, brave queen of Scythia, was besieged ; of the feast at their wedding ; and of the tempest at their home-coming .”

Certainly they have become more and more a part of geovisualization, whether maps or GIS systems.

Certainly many of the new castles were transitory in nature: Historian Oliver Creighton observes that 56 % of those castles known to have been built during Stephen's reign have " entirely vanished ".

The immediate dwellers-round, presumably the first members were the small states Aeniania, Malis and Doris. Certainly Thessaly did have a share, including the states of the Boeotian tribes who lived around Thessaly ( perioikoi, " living around ").

" Certainly this new style brought acclamation: Alexander Pope stated, " he was afraid the young man would be spoiled, for he would have no competitor.

Certainly those who have been associated with him closely for years will feel a deep sense of personal bereavement.

Certainly all three have their devotees and detractors, but their presence has been inescapable.

Certainly they were paid off on more than one occasion, and such payouts may have included money ( besides other valuables ), but the imposition of a tax on the people to pay either a stipend or a tribute is not recorded in the sources, although it is possible that some monies were raised this way.

" Certainly aspects of his reforms, and especially his judicial reforms, seem to have been directed at the people responsible for his brother's death.

Certainly, rats have been shown in the laboratory to be able to accurately ( within 5-10 %) discriminate the size of an opening, so it seems likely that cats can use their whiskers for this task.

Certainly, the Yongzheng Emperor ensured his successor would have a smooth transition when his turn came.

Certainly, there are a number of stories sloshing around the news now that have raised discussions of Israel and of the posture of American Jews to an acrid level.

Certainly, the Athenians, and Greeks in general, seem to have been impressed by the power of Persian cavalry, with the Greek armies displaying considerable caution during the following campaigns when confronted by the Persian cavalry.