Even when he was guaranteed a rubber stamp from a compliant Congress, he preferred to go it alone.
He also protested that Republican leaders had refused to guarantee that the food stamp program would not be included in the final measure that comes out of negotiations with the Senate.
Maybe they have a sticker or stamp that guarantees the environment wasn't harmed, that any animals were treated humanely, or that workers were treated well.
"Developers tend to offer a range of sweeteners to tempt buyers to purchase a new-build property, such as discounts, rental guarantees on investment properties, stamp duty paid and interior package upgrades," he adds.
Did you think it was just a device for the post office to guarantee that a first-class stamp would always be postage enough for a first-class letter?
He could start by taking a closer look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, America's housing-finance giants.When the two government-sponsored entities (GSEs) were listed companies, they acquired or stamped guarantees on millions of loans that in retrospect were far too risky.
His bait was to offer a guaranteed investment in stamps (that were never acquired), and for a time his happy customers got double their money back within months, all paid from new investors.
The first Occidental coinage, possibly begun by King Gyges (7th century bc) of Lydia, consisted of irregular ingots of electrum bearing his stamp as a guarantee of negotiability at a predetermined value.
Cameron will demand the Sri Lankan government investigate "alleged war crimes and allegations of continuing human rights abuses, guarantee freedom of expression, and stamp out intimidation of journalists and human rights defenders – including by bringing those responsible to justice".
This news blackout on what many NGOs considered a key concern was broken when at a meeting last Wednesday Hugo Swire, the Foreign Office minister, made a speech in which he pressed Sri Lanka to investigate people's disappearances, guarantee freedom of expression and "stamp out intimidation of journalists and human rights defenders".
