Your first assurance that this is not a gambling den is Mr. Cramer himself, a soft-spoken man who tells his guest, fidgeting, "I don't really even like having people in here".
First, assurance of accurate documentation of all complications is limited by the retrospective nature of the study.
How Mrs. Clinton navigates the Iran question may be an indicator of whether the hawkish tone she took during the campaign, or the diplomacy-first assurances offered by Mr. Obama, will dominate the early days of the new administration's foreign policy.
The second assurance is that the rates paid by consumers, despite the protests of Gov. Gray Davis, will be raised as needed, not all at once, but over time.
We can call the first group Reliance theories, and the second Assurance theories.
"The second assurance relates to membership of other specialised UN agencies and action in the International Criminal Court," he added.
Should a foreign law enforcement body request information about a case, the AFP should first seek assurances that the death penalty will not be sought.
It is separate from the court's initial bar on deportation, which required the Government to first get assurances from Jordan that evidence gained through torture would not be used against Qatada if he is sent back.
Acting fast, he formed a syndicate of four trustees and an outside collector to buy the estate, insisting first on assurances that they would give the Modern whatever it needed to fill gaps in its collection.
The deal has been in the making for months, but Exxon Mobil, which is based in Irving, Tex., had warned that it could not complete major investments in Russia's Arctic without first receiving assurances of a fair, long-term taxation regime.
Another factor against execution, Mr. Ruhnke argued, was the recent ruling by the highest court of South Africa, which said that Mr. Mohamed should not have been sent to the United States -- after his arrest in Cape Town in 1999 -- without the American government's first giving assurances that he would not face the death penalty.
