Sentence examples for without firm assurances from inspiring English sources

And without firm assurances of a secure supply, investors may also be chary of further committing themselves to UK business – so ensuring the kilns keep firing the bricks is very firmly at the top of policymakers' agenda.

In light of the violence that accompanied the 2008 elections, and the partisan rhetoric of some senior security officials, Zimbabwe should not be expected to go to new elections without firm assurances that history will not repeat itself.

Fernandes will be counting the cost of his expensive backing of Hughes but Redknapp is unlikely to have accepted the job without firm assurances that he can place his own indelible stamp on the squad he has inherited.

Without offering firm assurances for transferability, we believe that most of our findings are of a more general nature and we do also note that they concur with previous studies on challenges in cross-cultural care encounters [ 6- 8, 10, 12, 17, 18, 26, 45, 47, 49].

The Palestinians are wary of beginning preliminary talks with the Israelis without a firm assurance from the US secretary of state, John Kerry, that the pre-1967 border will be the basis of territorial negotiations.

"Was the prime minister not imprudent in allowing the handover of prisoners, without having in advance obtained firm assurances that the Americans would respect the Geneva Conventions?" asked the Bloc Québécois leader, Gilles Duceppe, during a recent question period.

American officials responded to the worry with firm assurances that they would neither lift sanctions nor remove Libya from its list of terrorist sponsors without concrete evidence of progress on a number of issues.

There is broad support in Israel for Mr. Netanyahu's demand for firm assurances.

This not only proved to be untrue, it also flatly contradicted firm assurances Tony Blair had already given to President Bush.

As Sunder Katwala points out at Next Left, Cameron gave firm assurances during the election campaign about winter fuel payments.

And get firm assurances that they will not let that airplane take off again".