Sentence examples for on a sure from inspiring English sources

A small number of companies are catching on, a sure indicator that public attitudes are shifting; some have banned the use of plastic straws.

"It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment," he wrote, continuing: "It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress".

"If one foot wasn't on a sure step," she said, "I would have fallen in, and I would have been eaten up by the escalator".

If one foot wasn't on a sure step, I would have fallen in, and I would have been eaten up by the escalator.

Then, not one to shun betting on a sure thing, he invested fifty cents in a ten-thousand-dollar flight-insurance policy on his wife, naming himself as beneficiary.

Our hypothesis looks like the strategy for playing at a horse race: a rich gambler (high-quality females) bets a lot of money (resources) on a sure thing (daughters), but a poor one bets all on a dark horse (sons).

But as far as the Swansea manager is concerned, Chelsea are still on to a sure thing; despite that miss.

"Tackling problems head-on is a sure sign of relationship health.

Moore looked shaky early on, missing a sure touchdown on the game's opening play and overthrowing several receivers.

But next month, the Prado is banking on a sure-fire winner.

This, too, has many parallels with the way people were encouraged by adverts showing satisfied customers to stake their money on a sure-fire investment.