Later in the week, as the concluded American presidential election prompted reports of renewed international efforts to persuade Mr. Assad to leave Syria in exchange for assurances of his safety, another rebel, Abdul Zaki, sat in the same cafe.
Unions representing workers at Mitsui Shipbuilding and Hitachi Shipbuilding, both of which expect to report losses for the six-month period that ended March 31, have gone so far as to make no request for a wage increase--in exchange for assurances of job security.
Israeli forces pulled out of Bethlehem two months ago in exchange for assurances from local security officials that they would keep the city quiet.
As of now, a bipartisan group of senators is suggesting a bill funding the government for three weeks in exchange for assurances from GOP leaders that they will hold a vote on immigration later.
Remember that Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994 in exchange for assurances from Russia, the US, and the UK that it would protect the territorial integrity and security of Ukraine.
Local 34 agreed to a one-year pay freeze beginning in January in exchange for assurances on job security.
The official — who exchanged frankness for assurances of anonymity — said they meant weaker southern countries could no longer "shield behind Germany".
As part of the Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994 by Ukraine, Great Britain, Russia and the United States, Kiev completely gave up its nuclear arsenal, the third-largest in the world, in exchange for security assurances including a promise to respect the "existing borders of Ukraine".
A current French discussion about banning the burqa — understood here to mean the head-to-toe garment that leaves Muslim women peering out at the world through a narrow slit — is really a politicized retreat from a potentially meaningful debate about Muslims assuming a more distinctly French identity in exchange for the assurance of a greater role in French life.
The exchange of letters does does give further assurances.
In the meantime the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, like the foot-draggers, are deducting withholding tax from EU-resident savers anonymously, and answering specific requests for information.The Cayman Islands, for its part, went for automatic exchange of information from the beginning, after assurances that this would not affect its hedge funds.
