The phrase "assured policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to convey a sense of certainty or guarantee regarding a specific policy or agreement.
Example: "The company implemented an assured policy to ensure that all employees receive fair treatment and benefits."
Alternatives: "guaranteed policy" or "secured policy".
I was once sure grassroots politics would take hold in this nation--and not only would we help elect President Barack Obama but we'd run to the streets, our neighbors, and our phone banks to assure policies we believed in were understood and "bought in" by our neighbors and loved ones.
It would appear to be ironic that Zakaria, and others who purport to be "doves," would favor a mutually assured destruction policy that threatens the deaths of millions, over a preventive policy that targets military nuclear facilities.
But rest assured, its policy wonks, keen these days to bash the corporates, will be working their angles up ready for an assault when the time is right.
"New Yorkers must be assured that policy decisions are made on merit - and not because of the possibility of personal financial gain," Tyson Slocum, Director of the Public Citizen Energy Program told DeSmogBlog.
And the reason they refuse to ask these hard questions is precisely because we know the answers they would give: They would be categorically opposed to any retaliatory attack that targeted civilians in a tit-for-tat implementation of a mutually assured destruction policy of deterrence.
Scott Wolf, president of the program division for CBIZ Insurance Services, which provides the Assure policy, broke the host's cost down: For a $1 million, four-bedroom home with contents worth $100,000, the annual cost of coverage would be about $3,000, which includes any damage, liability coverage and replacement of rental income in case the home is temporarily uninhabitable.
The party system, for all its many flaws, assured that policies that supported the working class had at least nominal advocates among Democratic candidates and a place in Democratic platforms.
They sound less assured on foreign policy than on economics.
Oldnavy.com's customer service policy assured me that I could return any gifts (if they didn't fit or just turned out to be an ugly color) to one of the company's real stores to avoid the hassle of shipping, so I ordered slippers and pajamas for my two older daughters.
The Bush tax cuts passed at least in part because Greenspan assured lawmakers the policy would improve the economy and that the nation could afford them.
