A patchwork of certifications, such as Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance, assured farmers higher prices in exchange for specific economic or environmental practices.
That odd alliance assured Mr. Yeltsin's victory, and the President paid his debt by appointing Mr. Lebed to Russia's top national security job.
BRUSSELS — As the Obama administration moves toward a decision on how rapidly to withdraw its extra combat forces from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates assured the NATO alliance on Thursday that "there will be no rush to the exits".
Then vanity, miscalculation and new weapons and tactics set the stage for military stalemate on a catastrophic scale, and once war started, rigid alliances assured that virtually all of Europe would be involved.
Alliance officials assured Dr. Lamb that this would change.
Alliance officials assured Dr. Lamb that the situation would change.
By the 1990s many Japanese citizens felt confined to an urban environment designed to serve the needs of corporate Japan and not its people and were less willing to support the entrenched government-business alliance that assured majorities for the LDP.
The Care not Killing Alliance assures us that no one need consider a voluntary death of any sort since care is always available.
Because it will hold 130 seats in the 275-seat parliament -- far more than competing Sunni Arab, Kurdish and secular blocs -- the Shiite alliance is almost assured of having its choice named prime minister when the newly elected legislature formally takes office in about two weeks.
According to Northern Alliance leaders, Mullah Fazel had assured them that most of the foreigners were ready to quit, and that most of the die-hard Arab fighters had already been killed in fighting.
Still, Ariel Sharon, the former general who heads the Likud, might be tempted into a transitional alliance if he is assured that no territorial concessions to the Palestinians would be made in the near future, Mr. Alpher said.
