Born in Westford, Massachusetts, Abbot entered the Navy as midshipman at the beginning of the War of 1812, serving first on the frigate and next on Lake Champlain with Commodore Macdonough, who, when he asked Abbot if he were ready to die for his country received the reply " Certainly, sir ; that is what I came into the service for.

: MR. SCHEUER: Certainly it was available in the open-source material, yes, sir.

Certainly, she wouldn't dare ask her father afterward.

Certainly no other seven American statesmen from any later period achieved so much in so concentrated a span of years.

Certainly external forces should not be applied arbitrarily out of mere power available to do so.

Certainly it is the most pretentious and elaborate.

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 all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

Certainly, most continue to lack a certain warmth in communication with other people, but many adjust to school, even college, to jobs and even to marriage and parenthood.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

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, America took Prokofieff and his Classical Symphony seriously, and with a good deal of pleasure.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

Certainly there would be less anxiety, fewer accidents ( it is the clumsy child who sustains the worst injuries ), and higher scholastic averages, since alert children work better.

Certainly every educator involved in interior design should be a member and active in the work of one of these organizations.

Certainly, the mere fact of failing to demonstrate them in one or another species does not conclusively deny their existence in that species.

Certainly a further reduction in the discount rate would be a strong possibility, as well as an easier reserve position for the banking system.

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

Certainly nobody will predict that the next time the lawmakers come back together Barnett will be able to enjoy a re-enactment of the strange but successful `` honeymoon '' he had in the 1960 legislative session.

Certainly, in analyzing an action which truly faced such alternatives, `` it is never possible that no world would be preferable to some worlds, and there are in truth no circumstances in which the destruction of human life presents itself as a reasonable alternative ''.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

Certainly in the matter of principals there is nothing lacking.

Certainly not the largest afternoon audience Newport has ever had at a jazz concert and the most attentive and quiet.

Certainly the entry of Turkic farmers following their horsemen ended the themes in Anatolia which had furnished the Empire with men and treasure.

`` Yes sir ''.

`` Our boy didn't chicken out, no sir.

They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.

With these we shape our destiny and own private property, and that, sir, makes ours the best of all possible societies.

`` Pardon me, sir.

Hell, sir.

`` No, sir '', Johnson said.

-- Yes, sir.

-- Yes, sir.

-- 'scuse me, sir.

Arlene was so ashamed that she hung her head when she said, `` Yes, sir ''.

`` It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.

`` No, sir ''.

`` No, sir ''.

`` Sergeant Vaughn, sir ''.

`` No, sir ''.

`` I was out in the district, sir ''.

`` No sir.

`` And also, sir, two articles which were considered souvenirs now must be regarded in another light entirely.

I swear it, sir ''.

`` Yes, sir.

`` I cannot speak for others, sir, but I am innocent ''.

In the end, he said: `` I'm not enchanted by the proposition, sir.

`` We'll be in there swinging '', William said, `` but in a way, sir, you've got to decide it yourself.