`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

Holmes is a public servant, to be sure ; ;

Though, to be sure, we gave Kennedy no very positive approval in the margin of his preferment.

We must not forget, to be sure, that free discussion and debate have produced beneficial results.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.

I shall continue to urge the American people, in the interests of their own security, prosperity and peace, to make sure that their own part of this great project be amply and cheerfully supported.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

We need not, to be sure, expect to find such ideas in every piece of literature.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

Lincoln was sure that he would not be re-elected.

But one need not always be sure that the action is either wise or conclusive.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

But the citizens would, of course, never be sure that the decisions that resulted were as correct as they were expeditious.

It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??

Besides, in all honesty, I don't know how you can be sure.

There such soggy acquiesence would be looked upon as a sure sign of deteriorating manhood.

One may be sure the present Republican congressional leadership hasn't meant to repeat this error.

Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.

The Presiding Elder was sure that that would be impossible.

He was not sure how much of this desire was due to his devotion to the church and how much was his own ego, demanding to be satisfied, for the two were intertwined and could not be separated.

I couldn't be sure he was still asleep.

there'll be no more worry '', matching the spiritual feeling of the jot.

Beginning in 1960, the matching requirements for the base allotment are being adjusted ( upward or downward, as required ) 25% a year, so that by 1963 the entire support allotment will be matched on the basis of a 40% pivot State share, with maximum and minimum State shares of 50% and 30%, respectively.

All matching surfaces should be checked frequently and mated on a cut and fit basis.

The best results will be obtained by matching the correct speed with a steady feed pressure that lets the tool cut easily at an even rate.

The other $15 million is to be alloted to municipalities on a matching fund basis.

His plot thoroughly unraveled, Pseudolus appears to be in deep trouble — but Erronius, completing his third circuit of the Roman hills, shows up fortuitously to discover that Miles Gloriosus and Philia are wearing matching rings which mark them as his long-lost children.

In 1874, the five-bit Baudot telegraph code and a matching 5-key chord keyboard was designed to be used with the operator forming the codes manually.

A small drawing of wood that can be repeatedly drawn in a matching tiled pattern ( like desktop wallpaper ) is stretched and drawn onto the walls ' final shape.

If an entry can be found with a tag matching that of the desired datum, the datum in the entry is used instead.

DSE is facilitated by computer matching techniques which can be automated, such as propensity score matching.

It can be as simple as two people matching each other drink for drink until one of the participants " passes out ".

On the day of painting, a thinner, smooth layer of fine plaster, the intonaco, is added to the amount of wall that can be expected to be completed in a day, sometimes matching the contours of the figures or the landscape, but more often just starting from the top of the composition.

It is commonly believed that this matching is unlikely to be a coincidence, and is often quoted as one of the main motivations to further investigate supersymmetric theories despite the fact that no supersymmetric partner particles have been experimentally observed ( March 2011 ).

One explanation may be that Hamlet was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was adept at matching rhetorical devices to characters and the plot.

Police could not identify any fingerprints on the devices other than those of the officers who had disarmed them ; however, Soliah's fingerprint, handwriting and signature were identified on a letter sent to order a fuse that could only be used for bomb-making purposes, and components matching those used in the police car bombs were found in a locked closet at the Precida Avenue hideout that Soliah lived in with the other members of SLA.

* Matching Rule Uses — Indicate which attribute types may be used in conjunction with a particular matching rule.

* Attribute Types — Define an object identifier ( OID ) and a set of names that may be used to refer to a given attribute, and associates that attribute with a syntax and set of matching rules.

The server also contains support for wildcard verb matching, so the same code can easily be used to handle multiple commands with similar names and functions.

The toadstool's connection to toads may be direct, in reference to some species of poisonous toad, or may just be a case of phonosemantic matching from the German word.

* The General Purpose Macroprocessor is a contextual pattern matching macro processor, which could be described as a combination of regular expressions, EBNF and AWK

By matching the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for a cluster at a known distance with that of a more distant cluster, the distance to the more distant cluster can be estimated.