But it has little chance of being fully effective without firmer assurances of confidentiality and guarantees against discrimination.

However, one million miners were locked out, it being impossible to get them back to work without firm assurances concerning their wages.

But the department should be wary about closing down institutions unless it gets firm assurances that alternative treatment will be available.

I can give you the firmest assurance of that.

We told the President that we have assurances - firm assurances from Nicaragua that no deliveries using certain aircraft actually were carried out.

The companies and universities, for example, should provide firm assurances that top talent will be made available.

Karel offered firm assurances that the stripling would never be able to carry such a double burden of magic very far.

He should come equipped with full details of the various list swaps, as well as firm assurances that it will not happen again.

We need firm assurances that investments in the Galileo project will produce an adequate return.

Several were built only after lengthy negotiations with town officials, and with firm assurances that they would never be subdivided or altered for other tenants.