The German "revanchism" was played up as a permanent German threat, with the Communists being the only guarantors and defenders of Poland's continued possession of the "Recovered Territories".

Five years ago, Chirac told Beirut, "The Lebanese Army and internal security forces must, following total Israeli withdrawal, be the only guarantors of the State's authority," enabling Syrian forces to withdraw.

Perhaps that confidence was the only guarantor of his good luck-although even for one as rooted in reality as Chyna, it was easy to let superstition overwhelm her, attributing to him powers dark and supernatural.

Now, the free market is the only guarantor.

"They are the only guarantor of the legitimacy of the elections," said Shabini.

The point missed by the religious zealots now is that the modern democratic state of Israel, far from threatening the survival of Judaism, is the only guarantor that the violence that has been a part of Jewish history can be tamed.

This possibility ran counter to much nineteenth-century political theory, which stressed that the State was the only guarantor of personal safety.

His only guarantor had been fast asleep throughout.

Proclaiming themselves the only guarantor of a democratic and free-market system won't save them these days as it has in the past.

He said that James Murdoch said in his 2009 MacTaggart lecture: "The only reliable, durable, and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit."