The phrase "assures failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a certain action or decision is guaranteed to lead to failure.
Example: "Ignoring the feedback from your team assures failure in the project."
Alternatives: "guarantees failure" or "ensures failure".
Right now, the Band-Aids that are being applied will only assure failure.
Whether he is or not, only time will tell, but rest assured, failure wont result due to a lack of hard work and effort.
To try to solve every problem with the same solution is to assure failure, both in cars and in people.
You are absolutely not assured success if you can check off these items (nor are you assured failure if you can't), but your chances of success are much, much higher if you can.
And just as in big companies, what will assure failure of such a turnaround are hints of the recent introspective, isolationist, protectionist, and self-flagellatory positioning our American brand has been promoting.
Four types of tests were used: (1) triaxial tests at low confining pressure to assure shear failure conditions, (2) triaxial tests at higher confining pressure to assure a stress path passing through the end-cap, (3) hydrostatic tests to determine the hydrostatic yield stress and (4) "Brazilian" tests.
Housing officials also had reservations, and insisted on substantial funding to assure against failure if expected rents fall short.
All slabs were flexurally reinforced with a grid of ribbed steel bars in a percentage to assure punching failure mode for the reference slabs.
It considers the determination of the limits on the laminate thickness in order to assure tensile failure due to steel yielding and to avoid tensile failure due to FRP laminate rupture.
