Barrick's investors, Mr. Oliphant, explained, "want a certain amount of assurance -- and a lottery ticket".
You can look for any number of cabernet sauvignons and assume, with a fair amount of assurance, that many are more or less ready to be opened.
As at the Bottega Veneta, Burberry, McQueen and Gucci shows, reviewed earlier online, there was a fair amount of assurance going around, and a sense that many of the high-end labels, by gently tweaking core identities, have managed to squeak through the economic downturn.
The threshold of image quality should be one able to deliver enough information to the radiologist to permit a medical decision to be taken with an acceptable amount of assurance [11].
In Queensland, the amount of financial assurance is calculated by determining the cost to reclaim the site minus any applicable discounts.
No amount of money or assurances about risk freely assumed can change the fact that, in this moment, an essential bond had been broken.
Pyongyang sees the nukes as the ultimate guarantee of its security and will not exchange them for any amount of agreements and assurances from Washington.
Bright lowered its loan request to $314 million, from $450 million, and last summer agreed to raise private equity equal to 70 percent of the loan amount as assurance that the company would succeed.
We argue that guaranteeing a certain amount of bandwidth is enough for QoS assurance, i.e., throughput, delay, jitter, and losses due to buffer overflow will be bounded as a consequence, as explained in [28].
For tree species, two aspects were considered: one, classification of populations for biomass modeling should be compatible with that for volume modeling; two, assurance that the amount of stand area and volume stock for each separate modeling population of certain tree species (or group) is sufficient.
With 33 in the final match of the series, his place on the 1948 tour was secure, though he had to give assurances about the amount of contact he would have with his wife, still living in Scotland, before he was confirmed.
