And you yourself could do with (*) some definite assurance, couldn't you?

That is apparently what happened on Monday, when General Musharraf, speaking in English, said, "One is hoping - and I have got definite assurances - that this operation will be short."

"There were definite assurances of longevity," Mr. Ashcroft said, noting that the White House was speaking of a five-year plan.

He refused to lay down his arms without definite assurance of the restoration of the privileges accorded by the Edict of Nantes.

But it was futile to rely on plans unless they had as their basis a definite assurance that the full resources to implement them would be forthcoming.

Though there was no definite assurance to Saint Thomas Christians, Joint Political Congress decided to withdraw the agitation.

Accept his definite assurance that without delay a specific pronouncement would be made respecting the bestowal of the one around whose jade-like personality this encounter has arisen.

There was a definite assurance in the criminologist's tone.

They were insured, so it is with definite assurance that I can tell you that all the gems in the collection were recovered in the Earl's pockets.

His new memory did offer him one definite assurance: that what he ought to do before anything else was dispose reverently of the body of his predecessor.