Sentence examples for guarantees meaning from inspiring English sources

Fierce competition between auction giants Sotheby's and Christie's to get good property meant Sotheby's ended up giving many of last night's sellers guarantees, meaning the auction house promised them an undisclosed minimum sum regardless of the outcome of the sale.

Existing agreements settled in 1999 run through 2003 and carry wage guarantees, meaning the company has to pay 95percentt of workers' wages even in the event of layoffs, Mr. Frohlich said.

Many also have best-rate guarantees, meaning if you find a better rate for the same hotel and type of room at a better price from a third-party site, they'll beat the rate or lower yours.

One is a partial loan guarantee (meaning it guarantees only a percentage of the loan) for three new geothermal plants in Nevada.

Unlike some other sports, N.F.L. contracts often are not fully guaranteed, meaning players are often cut and forced to find a new team, sometimes for a lesser contract.

A tiny circle next to the lot number in the catalog is Christie's symbol that the painting has been guaranteed, meaning that the seller has been promised an undisclosed sum regardless of the outcome of the sale.

However, the third year of the contract is at the pitcher's option while all of the money is guaranteed, meaning he can get all of his money after playing only two years.

Even if just a third of potentially available fossil fuel resources were exploited, calculations suggest, this scenario would still be guaranteed, meaning decisions we make this century will determine the fate of generations to come.

When Phillips tries to compete with its larger counterparts by presenting expensive artworks by big names, it struggles, and this auction was top-heavy with mediocre examples of big names, most of which were guaranteed — meaning the auction house had promised each seller an undisclosed sum regardless of the sale's outcome.

Mr Clegg has said the 2015 party manifesto would include a "parental guarantee", meaning that all teachers must be qualified or working towards a qualification.

More importantly, the reversibility of our method is guaranteed, meaning that original image and secret information can both be perfectly recovered at the decoder.