The phrase "assuring tough" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to combine two different ideas, but without context, it is difficult to determine its intended use.
Example: "The manager was assuring tough decisions would be made for the benefit of the team."
Alternatives: "confidently ensuring" or "promising resilience".
Speakers on the subject of law & order see ed less interested in police techniques for crowd control than in assuring the chiefs that tough police reaction to demonstrators was getting public support.
The fact that a whole novel's worth of unresolved questions remain only strengthens the impression that here is a story assured enough and tough enough to be itself, exhilaratingly uninterested in such niceties as neat conclusions.
Unless the political problem is resolved, we can rest assured that, however tough on terror this prime minister or any of his successors are, we will never be able to make any progress.
With 12 reds 12 blacks already in the pockets, the maximum looked assured but a tough red down the cushion proved the stumbling block to deny O'Sullivan a fourth Crucible 147.
Advertisers play along, assuring us that we're tough to persuade; the trade press laments the birth of a "new consumer," shoppers hopped up on YouTube and TiVo who are said to have developed a strange "immunity" to advertising.
In past years, when nonprofits needed credit lines to see themselves through tough budget times, the comptroller issued letters assuring banks that vendors would be paid.
A high-level meeting in a presidential palace with a foreign leader allowed the outsider candidate to demonstrate statesmanship and to assure voters that his tough talk will not prevent him from striking dialogue with foreign leaders.
Even with such disclosure, the public should not feel assured they are getting tough-minded reporting on the CIA.
Mamadou Sakho found the going tough alongside the assured Raphaël Varane.
