The phrase "asking for assurances" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express a request for confirmation or guarantees regarding a situation or outcome.
Example: "In our meeting, I will be asking for assurances that the project will be completed on time."
Alternatives: "requesting guarantees" or "seeking confirmations".
"Of course, in a negotiation, we understand that the Iranians will be asking for assurances or actions from us and we will certainly take those under consideration".
In 2002 Woman B wrote a letter to the then head of Chetham's, asking for assurances that Layfield would not be allowed to teach at the school.
The next month, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo)., then-chairman of the House subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer credit, sent a letter to the regulators asking for assurances that they would not be enforcing the leveraged-lending guidance.
Roorda said the gesture was particularly offensive to the union because the team had been in contact with the St Louis police department over the past week "asking for assurances that the players and the fans would be kept safe".
His statement demands the strongest condemnation by the White House". The Venezuelan government is asking for assurances from the US government that Mr Chávez will be adequately protected when he visits New York for a special session of the UN next month.
emphasized later in the hearing that being forced to vote on military action was one of "the most difficult" things lawmakers can do, before asking for assurances that a congressional authorization to strike would not turn into an open-ended military commitment akin to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The ABC is also asking for assurance that a further $43m targeted grant to support news gathering will be forthcoming, according to sources.
Debbie Purdy, on the other hand, was asking for assurance that her husband would not be prosecuted should he assist her in travelling abroad for an assisted death.
But now some of Mr. Zinn's strongest scholarly critics have rushed to his defense, following the revelation that former Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana had, while in office, sent e-mails to a state education official asking for assurance that Mr. Zinn's "truly execrable, antifactual piece of disinformation" was "not in use" in Indiana classrooms.
Just a few weeks before the financial-management contract was awarded, according to emails released last week by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, CMS officials were becoming increasingly concerned about the status of the federal insurance marketplace, asking for assurance that the lead contractor was not "going to crash the plane at take-off".
In 1906, a delegation of Muslim leaders headed by the Aga Khan called on the new Viceroy of India, Lord Minto, to assure him of their loyalty and to ask for assurances that in any political reforms they would be protected from the "unsympathetic [Hindu] majority".
