The phrase "advance assurances" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to guarantees or commitments made ahead of time, often in a business or formal context.
Example: "Before we proceed with the project, we need to obtain advance assurances from the stakeholders regarding their support."
Alternatives: "preliminary guarantees" or "prior commitments".
Except as a legislative history informs an analysis of legislative action, there is no more advance assurance that a legislative body will act by conscientiously applying consistent standards than there is with respect to voters.
The advance assurance of money is also "an advantage for the school because they can see what a person can really do" without taking an expensive risk on a researcher who may not ultimately win funding.
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"Was the prime minister not imprudent in allowing the handover of prisoners, without having in advance obtained firm assurances that the Americans would respect the Geneva Conventions?" asked the Bloc Québécois leader, Gilles Duceppe, during a recent question period.
Perversely, America's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, combining co-operation in high-tech (though costly and as yet unproven) technologies among countries that already have "advanced" skills, with assurances of fuel supply for others who agree not to seek them, has stoked fears in some quarters of a new nuclear apartheid.
The video tells women to refuse an officer's advances, with vague assurances that DOCCS will protect them from retaliation.
In essence, he has demanded assurances in advance that the governor will not resort to widespread vetoes if spending remains under a certain level.
Intended market effects include ARV price reduction, product quality improvement and assurance, improved product delivery, and advances in innovation.
United Nations officials said that Mr. Annan could not go to Baghdad a second time this year, with the Iraqis having broken the first agreement, unless he had absolute assurance in advance that Mr. Hussein would reverse decisions made on Aug. 5 and Oct. 31 that shut down arms inspections in Iraq.
Continuous quality improvement is mandatory to convince payers of the value of the surgery, with a focus first on life-cycle costs of bariatric procedures, centers/facilities, technological advances, and quality assurance processes.
