Sentence examples for gaining assurance from inspiring English sources

His fingers mimic how he's seen others handle the instrument, and then they find the patterns themselves, gaining assurance on the strings, or keys, or valves.

Though part of the board's mandate from Congress is to prevent the collapse of important transportation routes, industry experts said the board's emphasis had been on gaining assurance that airlines receiving taxpayer guarantees would be able to repay their loans.

In this way, gaining assurance that P by testing a few predictions may also give us assurance that the indefinitely many further predictions entailed by P that haven't (yet) been tested will nonetheless also be borne out.

Louganis accepted after gaining assurances from Mitchell that he would be free to follow his building-blocks philosophy, which is at odds with some American coaches who stress acrobatics over mechanics.

On Sunday, he had to share the spotlight with his sister, who seemed relieved after gaining assurances that if her team made it to the championship game, she would still be able to get to AT&T Park in time to see her brother play against their hometown team.

He spent each evening riding to New York and even took long subway rides, to gain assurance.

The players association will approach Major League Baseball this week to reopen negotiations on playing 22 Expos home games in 2004 outside Montreal; the purpose will be to gain assurance of a competitive payroll, a person involved in the talks said yesterday.

The United States has gained assurance from defeating top-ranked Spain at the Confederations Cup in South Africa last June and taking a two-goal lead over Brazil before losing, 3-2, in the championship game.

But by announcing that he intends to replace the local currency with the American dollar, he has seemingly gained assurance that he will survive to face at least the next crisis.

Others tried reaching Alex Padilla, whether through their state senator such as Ben Allen, or through Dean Logan's office, trying to gain assurance that votes were counted.

In late 1969, Murdoch accompanied Secretary of Defence Sir Henry Bland to the United States to gain assurance of an adequate "safe life" for the F-111's swing-wing mechanism, amid the Australian government giving serious consideration to abandoning the program.