Sentence examples for almost ensuring from inspiring English sources

After two weeks of outdoor prayer protests, Hamas banned them earlier in the week, almost ensuring a new clash on Friday.

11.30pm: Poulter and Furyk both give themselves wonderful birdie chances at 17. Karlsson bumps and runs a lovely wedge into the 16th, almost ensuring Europe a four.

Alberto Breccia, a top aide to Mr. Mujica, said Wednesday that the president had no plans to veto the bill, almost ensuring that it would become law by early November.

The run defense is in tatters, having allowed 194 yards rushing to the Eagles, almost ensuring that the Giants will lean on Tiki Barber to do most of their work.

Washing away all of the optimism that flowed from the union's decision Monday not to set a strike date, baseball's labor negotiators ran into a reef in their talks last night, almost ensuring that the union will set an Aug. 30 strike date tomorrow.

But in all these places, and in others stretching through the Balkans and into Africa, successive generations have handed down an ever-sharper legacy of loss and betrayal to their offspring, almost ensuring that conflict -- or at least hatred -- will endure among people doomed to live side by side.

In combination, these factors almost ensure failure.

The Republican politicians have now almost ensured their own recall.

This would almost ensure that Yanukovich would reinforce his hold on power and become a dictator.

The sudden and surprising change in head coaches almost ensures it.

Victory almost ensures Stephen Fleming's side a place in the final.