Sentence examples for direct assurance from inspiring English sources

Pakistan, which has backed an Islamic separatist insurgency against India in Kashmir, said it would not permit Pakistani territory to be used to support terrorism, its first such direct assurance to India.

But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior officials have also balked at giving Iran any direct assurance of that, and they have maintained publicly that all options remain on the table to confront Iran over its nuclear program.

Despite his lobbying, Grassley said he had not yet received direct assurances that Cissna would stay in his post.

It asks that Baghdad be given direct assurances by the Secretary General or "a delegation from the Council" that its demands, many of which have already been rejected, be taken into account now.

The Washington Post previously reported that HUD was seeking infrastructure and maintenance funds to offset dramatic cuts to the department's budget; Carson's remarks Monday represented his most direct assurances to date on those offsets.

In other words, NASA should establish an office that "would have direct authority for safety, reliability, and quality assurance throughout the agency.

He signed up to direct with assurances that parts of the script would be changed, but "those scenes were removed and the original scenes were put back in.

Hedging their bets, however, they've slotted immensely popular stand-up comic Chris Rock into a five-member cast that also includes contemporary acting powerhouses Bobby Cannavale, Annabella Sciorra, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Yul Vasquez and is directed with assurance by Anna D. Shapiro.

He said he had seen no "direct evidence" that assurances previously given to the committee by the publisher on the matter had been untrue.

Steeped in the hard facts of Mormon frontier history, Ms. Jensen's script has a gentle, poetic allure that is wonderfully realized in its New York premiere, directed with relaxed assurance by Joan Vail Thorne.

Now, the fall of Kunduz, which was one of the centers of the American troop surge five years ago, stands as a direct challenge to assurances by American and Afghan officials that the Afghan security forces can hold the country's most important cities.