Sentence examples for less than assured from inspiring English sources
The playing, however, was less than assured.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, meanwhile - its contribution to the festival hitherto less than assured - played with ferocious commitment.
Villa goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini's handling was less than assured when Czech Republic winger Jiri Skalak curled a testing free-kick into the area.
Barcelona were widely expected to add re-inforcements at the back with Gerardo Martino's defence considered to be a weakness by some - a view cemented by their less than assured 3-2 La Liga win at Valencia on Sunday.
In Slovakia though, judicial and prosecutorial independence is less than assured: the investigator charged with looking into the raid again is an employee of the interior ministry, the very body that has sought to brush the incident under the carpet.
"Ballacks Demontage hat begonnen," (Ballack's demontage has begun), wrote Stuttgarter Zeitung in July 2010, when the captain's future in the brave new Germany of Jogi Löw looked less than assured.
As businesses' footprints extended around the world, these objectives became less important than assuring low taxes.
He's less personally assured than he seems on screen; the opposite to what you'd expect.
Bigger in person even than she appears on screen, Ms Le Pen is a formidable presence, if less assured than her father.
Her Tracy is less visibly assured, more wistful than Ricki Lake's was in the film version, and this gives the audience a firmer grasp of empathy.
