It didn't always put blue-chip assets into the partnerships — like oil leases that would reliably generate income.
For that matter, could engineers equip us with several million (never mind a few trillion) alarm clocks that would reliably ring 6,209 days from now?
The trap also relied on the animal licking the poison off its fur, which cats would reliably do, but most other animals were less likely to.
America has been pondering what it will take to monitor a deal that would reliably end the production and sales of North Korea's longer-range missiles.
The law contains no meaningful protections against the use of the information for political and personal reasons and it offers no procedures that would reliably correct mistakes.
The challenge for Mr. Davis was to figure out how to retool the character in a way that would reliably tickle modern funny bones.
Companies might easily have missed out on changes that, spread across a large customer base, would reliably produce a gain in output of just 1% or so.
In its size and uneven quality, his recent output can bring to mind those golden-age Hollywood professionals who, come hell, high water or inferior script, would reliably do their part to meet the studio's sausage quota.
That whatever it was was always at night and though morning would reliably come and snap night off like a light or a finger extended night would always grow back.
He promises to instill a kind of Compstat system that would reliably measure the different sorts of activities in every sector of Iraq, from car bombings to school openings, so that he could deploy the military's resources accordingly.
The military has so far sent home 267 detainees from Guantánamo after finding that they had no further intelligence value and either posed no long-term security threat or would reliably be imprisoned or monitored by their own governments.
