Even so, many holidays warn that there can never be guarantees.
"If buyers are being sought, there must be guarantees on staffing levels and a commitment to the paper's editorial independence," says its general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet.
"After the huge tragedy on Saturday … I would not be totally against camps in transit countries in Africa, but there must be guarantees that people who qualify for EU countries [will be moved there].
It is difficult to speculate how many players might be using human growth hormone, but the belief that some might be guarantees that there will be some skepticism attached to baseball's decrease in positive tests.
Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband accepted the Tory idea of a royal charter to establish a new press regulatory body but insisted it be underpinned in statute and said there should be guarantees of the body's independence.
There should be guarantees that any legislation would apply only to future officeholders, just as the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting the president to two terms and adopted in 1951, didn't apply to the man then in the White House, Harry S. Truman.
