The changed atmosphere reflects the difference between certainty and ambiguity.

Or something very like, Nalesean allowed; the longer he talked, the more he bounced between absolute certainty and doubt.

The judge should have placed "beyond a reasonable doubt" between absolute certainty and "balance of probabilities".

The captain exists in that margin between certainty and possibility.

He felt a fire bum inside, the struggle between doubt and certainty continuing.

The Commission accepts that there is a certain tension between legal certainty and flexibility.

I believe that the common position would have achieved, or has achieved in fact, a satisfactory balance between legal certainty, environmental protection and industrial development.

Prichard (1967) gives an interestingly different account of the relations between knowledge, belief, certainty and truth.

(d) The theory does seem to have some resources with which to explain the link between certainty and knowledge.

For one thing, they have not addressed the tension between certainty and justice.