Sentence examples for a virtual guarantee from inspiring English sources

In a country where Congress's approval rating is usually in the teens (or lower), winning control of the legislature is a virtual guarantee of unpopularity ahead.

The play almost seems dated, making the assumption that a graduate degree and a pleasant demeanor are a virtual guarantee of great career opportunities.

What better way to turn things around than to raise the specter of higher taxes, and propose a virtual guarantee against them.

Jack Wilshere believes that if Arsenal were to sign his England team-mate Wayne Rooney from Manchester United it would be a virtual guarantee of winning something.

Selection can be a virtual guarantee of victory, especially with positions like reclamation district commissioner, since most voters care little about them and will probably toe the party line in a Democratic stronghold.

It sounds too simple to work, but when this approach is backed up by a formidable political machine and a one-party system, it's a virtual guarantee of perpetual incumbency.

But he knows that to do so would mean missing out on the virtual guarantee of competing for major honours, so the 24-year-old wants to play for many more seasons at City.

Despite this virtual guarantee of authorial control, she set terms that had just two precedents in the magazine's annals: the poet Philip Larkin insisted that his interview be conducted by mail and Vladimir Nabokov handed a pre-written text to his hapless interviewer in a hotel lobby.

The virtual guarantee of better ground at Cheltenham remains the strong caveat to every result at the Christmas meeting here and Adrian Maguire accepts that he is unlikely to find suitable conditions in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle for Celestial Wave, an effortless winner of the big hurdle race on the card.

There had been little to like about the Knicks' week to date — from Smith's suspension on Sunday to his subsequent boast that the series should have been over, to Kenyon Martin's virtual guarantee that it would end Wednesday night and then, finally, the players' unfortunate choice of black funereal attire for Game 5.

The importance of practice needs emphasis in future use of the programme, as does the virtual guarantee of success, if all steps are followed.