However, as is often the case over the course of a six-hour race, nothing can be assured until the chequered flag is waved.
Conditions, officially described as good (good to soft in places), should be OK for Golden Horn, but Gleneagles' participation will not be assured until trainer Aidan O'Brien and his entourage take their pre-racing march around the track.
The head of Greece's banking association, Louka Katseli, told reporters: "Liquidity is assured until Monday, thereafter it will depend on the ECB decision".
There are Howards here, going back to the mid-1600s, but not our Howard, the one whose sepulchre was inside the church, whose everlasting goodness and glory were assured, until the German bombers removed them at a stroke.
Firefighters were watching the wildfire today, but said they would not send crews in again until they could be assured it was safe.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley "Until I can be assured that all potential refugees from Syria have no ties to terrorist organizations, I am requesting that the State Department not resettle any Syrian refugees in South Carolina".
Friends of the Earth and several other environmental organizations immediately lashed out, calling, as they have before, for a worldwide moratorium on any experiments until safety can be assured.
"I remain concerned that all potential options to eliminate the discharge of oil be pursued with utmost speed until I can be assured that no additional oil will spill from the Macondo well," he wrote.
But venture-capital groups from Europe and America are holding off until they can be assured of a way to recoup their investment, preferably by floating any resultant company on the stockmarket, or selling it to a larger firm.A second problem is management.
"It's not ready for prime time, at least not in my mind, until we can be assured that the transplanted stem cells have completely lost the capacity for tumorogenicity," said Dr. Steven Goldman, chairman of neurology at the University of Rochester.
Snapchat's official statement is "We have removed GIPHY from our application until we can be assured that this will never happen again".
