Indeed, being labelled as close to the government is nowadays a sure ticket to losing a trade union election.
The small number tends to bolster arguments that relying on large-scale absentee balloting is a sure ticket to disenfranchisement.
Krigstein was never associated with a specific character (the most sure ticket to comics success), and he never wrote his own stories (a handicap in a narrative medium).
When Kennedy appointed him as the first director of the Peace Corps, many believed it was a sure ticket to obscurity.
He was thinking about the afterlife, about uniting with Roy Allshause, and he was fearful that his whiskey-soaked past was a sure ticket to hell.
"If a judge is labeled soft on crime, it's a sure ticket to no longer being a judge," said McKesson, Perez's lawyer.
Perhaps the biggest change is that the elite prep schools are no longer a sure ticket to the Ivy League; most of the prep schools have graduates at a variety of colleges.
She also makes clear that flight was no sure ticket to safety, recreating the constant tension under which the Blackburns lived, subject as they were to discovery and arrest as fugitive slaves.
They were so incredulous that a 34-year-old reporter would give up his cushy life for a sure ticket to Iraq that they made him take a psychological test to prove he was of sound mind.
In my opinion there are quite a few legitimate ways to make money in the markets, but having an investment process that chases the investment winds isn't one of them it is likely a sure ticket to failure.
Parents are lured with glittering promises of getting their kids a sure ticket to college.
