With Premier League safety surely assured, the signings of Amrabat and Suárez add to the sense Watford are contenders for the Cup.
With England's three best batsmen, Alastair Cook, Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen, gone for a miserable aggregate of 57 and the sun still stinging the pink skin of the Barmy Army, those that followed did so mostly with resignation - except Michael Carberry, fighting for his place, and Ben Stokes, surely assured of his after an excellent series.
Some will regard following arguably the game's greatest manager as a poisoned chalice but the appointment has Ferguson's fingerprints on it - he will surely have assured those in control at Old Trafford that Moyes fits the bill.
Surely, I assured my son, there will be some sort of penalty, or remedy, for such blatant unsportsmanlike conduct.
If he had gracefully stepped down from power in 1998, after the final surrender of the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen's place in history would surely have been assured.
Surely someone who grew up anchored in American culture would be more financially and socially assured; certainly my American boyfriend would be able to navigate the culture that has confounded her for so long.
If, as Thomas L. Friedman writes ("The Wrong Answer," column, Oct. 17), the devil and the solution in the Middle East crisis are in the details, the quintessential detail is surely a lack of "mutually assured humanity".
Faridul Anwar Farinordin of the New Straits Times said, "rest assured, fans will surely grab this one" and selected "Oops!.
It surely helped that right up to the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the fierce attacks that everyone was assured were sure to come from Mitt's rivals only materialized after the votes were counted and the scene switched southward.
So did his office manager, who had assured me with touching (but surely misplaced) loyalty that Dr. Nunez was innocent.
Under our benevolent stewardship, we assured each other, it could surely become some sort of launchpad for radical new ideas, a haven for subversives all over the planet.
