'in sure hands' is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the notion that something or someone is in the reliable hands of a certain individual or institution. For example, you could say, "This company is in sure hands with our new CEO at the helm."
Ms. Gray offered a fiery but severe portrayal and — just for a minute — the audience was in sure hands.
It is built on uncertainties, illusions, sudden reversals, constantly shifting perspectives, but once you enter it you feel you're in sure hands.
That they will also participate in a new production of Mr. Ashley's first opera, "That Morning Thing," at the Kitchen next week suggests that the idiosyncratic legacy of this consummate collaborative artist is in sure hands.
As played by a pigtailed and leather-coated Sergei Leiferkus (quite a catch for Garsington, even at this stage of his career) with his celebrated vocal snarl and sibilance, the villainy of the piece was in sure hands.
Peter Van Derick made a sonorous bass-baritone Prospero, the soprano Carol Sparrow sang strongly as Miranda, Jacque Trussel was the energetic dramatic-tenor Caliban, Kenneth Shaw the baritone Ferdinand, and the several other parts were all in sure hands.
Altogether, and even if, like this critic, you have never sat on a horse, let alone aspired to jump the Eiffel Tower on one, you will find yourself in sure hands at the Yale Center for British Art.
For some time, he will settle for fondling Clara's shoes, which in her sure hands double as missiles.
Caprice has its day; in the sure hands of Blakemore, Ives, and the well-drilled supporting cast, it also has its victory.
Mr. Birtwistle's new Violin Concerto remains the heart of Tuesday's concert, in the sure hands of the violinist Christian Tetzlaff, who will also play Mozart and Bartok; Marcelo Lehninger, the assistant conductor, will take charge.
In the meantime, this is such a cheerful show, Mr. Bernstein's score is so captivating, and its realization is in such sure hands that one can recommend this production enthusiastically.
In less sure hands, these simplicities – one thing after another, after another – could become banal; ordinary life seems banal until it has gone, then it becomes the past and has extraordinary power to move us.
