When the trading was first disclosed, JPMorgan assured us that it was really hedging, and therefore acceptable under the Volcker Rule as proposed.
When it was first announced, Nichols assured me in an interview that the biggest take-up was likely to be among unhappy Anglicans in the US and Australia, yet here we are in London.
"When abuse of workers was first unearthed, football authorities assured us there would be change," he said.
He reports that "Modern accounts pretend to say, it [the gibbet] was for all sorts of felons; but I am well assured, it was first erected purely, or at least principally, for such thieves as were apprehended stealing cloth from the tenters; and it seems very reasonable to think it was so".
By applying the Lyapunov stability theory and stochastic analysis techniques, sufficient conditions are first entrenched to assure the presence of the desired estimators in terms of a linear matrix inequality (LMI).
The first was assured and compelling, and pulled off the difficult task of jumping ahead of the news cycle and setting the agenda for what comes next in the ever-widening scandal involving tabloid phone-hacking and the alleged bribery of policemen.This Mr Cameron did a whole series of smart things.
At first, Penn was assured that everything that could be done was being done; then the Superdome lost its roof, and it became clear that the city was imploding.
A runner-up for the Carnegie medal for the best children's book of the year, The Warden's Niece was an assured first novel and Avery never strayed far from the subject matter, the style or the quality of it in her subsequent novels.
He followed this up a few days later, and reported that the funding for a second ship was now assured, making his first explicit references to a "Scottish Expedition".
