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How to use the word Certainly in a Sentence?

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The IRA's campaign of violence was not solely responsible for achieving its aims. Political developments, international pressure, and changing attitudes within Northern Ireland all played crucial roles. However, the threat of violence and the IRA's ability to disrupt daily life certainly influenced the peace process.

– Paul Bew

added by paddyhayes413
12 days ago

Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with drone attacks on the Kremlin, it makes absolutely no sense. It provides no military, informational, or tactical effect on the eve of an offensive.

– Mykhailo Podolyak

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

He doesn’t have primaries. He has the luxury of time, and most certainly the other side does not.

– Jeffrey Katzenberg

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We certainly, if we could flip a switch and make this change instantly, we would, but we know this is going to take some time.

– Beth Foster

Found on CNN
12 months ago

There is a spectrum of pro-life, and they’re all going to have to find their way, and I will guarantee you, by the time we are done and we have our field and it’s September or October, you are going to have some space and some gradation in a pro-life stance, certainly, Jeff Kaufmann are going to see variations of the pro-life stance when it comes to exceptions.

– Jeff Kaufmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that exposure through the media – which can happen across many different outlets, with the swipe of a finger or a ding on your phone – to some type of traumatic event can result in someone experiencing an acute stress reaction and can trigger underlying post-traumatic stress they may have from something else, so certainly, that constant exposure can be escalating and activating people even when they don’t experience something directly.

– Leah Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The answer to this problem is not just the response of one country, certainly the countries who have fuelled the geopolitical inequalities and have generated the type of problems people are fleeing … also have a responsibility and the Global North are not pulling their weight, (Countries in) the Global North have more money, but they are taking far fewer people.

– Jenny Phillimore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only in exceptional circumstances will content-based restrictions be constitutionally permissible under the First Amendment, certainly, the Montana government has a compelling state interest in protecting the health, welfare, and privacy of its citizens, but the statute is so vague that it is virtually unenforceable. A vague statute is, by definition, not narrowly tailored, and as such it will wither under First Amendment scrutiny.

– Lynn Greenky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There will certainly will be damage up along the coastal areas where the crossing occurred, but largely the populated areas did escape the brunt of the eye as it crossed the coast.

– Peter Sutton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden has been talking about liberal internationalism as something that can return, he talks about democracy versus autocracy, all of this kind of stuff. So within that, I think that he wants to see good examples of the rule of law in US foreign policy. And this is a great example of that. This was an achievement, the Good Friday Agreement is certainly one of those things where you can get real bipartisan buy-in in Washington.

– Liam Kennedy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Good Friday Agreement is certainly one of those things where you can get real bipartisan buy-in in Washington, believe me, that’s a pretty unusual thing.

– Liam Kennedy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s a relevant fact here, it is not an attack on the judge or certainly his family. No one is suggesting that anything should happen to the judge or his family, and President Trump’s comments did not in any way, shape or form.

– Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Certainly, the Court would not impose a gag order at this time even if it were requested, such restraints are the most serious and least intolerable on First Amendment rights. That does apply doubly to Mr. Trump, because he is a candidate for the presidency of the United States.

– Juan Merchan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today certainly in Maryland is a day of reckoning and a day of accounting.

– Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s lots of ways you can show that. But certainly one of them is if they were told by people who knew what they were talking about, that that there was no basis to take the actions, i would not want to be a defense lawyer trying to argue, ‘Well, yes, my client was told that, but he never really believed it,’.

– Adav Noti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

– John Maynard Keynes

added by Normando
1 year ago

I certainly watched how agitated people got when they understood that the White House had changed their position, and you can understand, we’re all sort of working off the same sheet of music, usually.

– Elissa Slotkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not easy to obtain a fully automatic machine gun today, I don’t want to give that impression – but it is certainly legal. And it’s always been legal.

– Stephen Gutowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a need to really confirm these types of studies, so I wouldn’t necessarily change lifestyles based on this data, but I wouldn’t certainly get rid of pets in the home.

– Jonathan Bernstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the Paris Agreement is an essential part of the international legal framework for climate action, it is certainly not the only instrument … nor is it the most legally enforceable.

– Ralph Regenvanu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Individuals can be reassured that there’s certainly no imminently dangerous effects of drinking coffee.

– Gregory Marcus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Certainly, people will be interested in her and interested in hearing from her. But I don’t think it will be received on the same way that we saw (with Obama).

– Matthew Carotenuto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are looking for the suspect, we will find that suspect, and we will hold that suspect accountable for his actions this morning in placing everyone in danger and certainly wounding the two staff members who were doing their job and trying to keep everyone safe at the time.

– Mayor Michael Hancock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Being young and gay in the Lowcountry was not an easy thing to do. It’s not easy today, certainly wasn’t easy in 2015, he was proud of being gay. However, he had to be cautious. And people that have to be cautious have to be secretive.

– Eric Bland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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