Opening weekend, so to speak, is more or less guaranteed to be huge.
The reason is that an ancient reprint is more or less guaranteed to be interesting.
The tricky bit isn't packing computer power into a limited space: advances in chip technology are more or less guaranteed to do that anyway.
For centuries, women have not allowed themselves to expect to get what they want if only because they were more or less guaranteed to be denied it.
A "transformative" performance is usually regarded as a positive thing – the kind of display that is more or less guaranteed to secure awards attention.
This is the sort of calamity that's always happening to even the cleverest and the most disciplined crooks in heist movies, in which the best-laid schemes are more or less guaranteed to, in Robbie Burns's words, gang agley.
For an art experience more or less guaranteed to deliver the goods, though, "Van Gogh Draftsman: The Masterpieces," at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, seems like a good bet (July 1 to Sept. 18).
Since the party dominates South African politics with 70% of the vote at the last general election its next boss is more or less guaranteed to become president in 2009.The coming leaderDisagreements over economic policy and leadership style have now crystallised around the political succession and Mr Zuma, who remains the ANC's number two.
Now, a new book by either Philip Reeve or Sarah McIntyre is more or less guaranteed to be a treat, and since Oliver and the Seawigs (Oxford University Press, £8.99) is their first collaboration, you'd reasonably expect something special – and that's what you get.
In a slightly elaborate marketing exercise, its title will only be revealed after readers, as a reward for tweeting and Facebooking the news, have revealed, tile by tile, a "mosaic" that will in due course reveal what is more or less guaranteed to be this summer's blockbusting books hit.
Those that are thrown together by svengalis or record companies are "more or less guaranteed to fizzle out quickly", whereas bands that came together as friends, and have years of shared history – like the Rolling Stones or more recently Biffy Clyro and Muse – will "probably stay together".
