He said no political consensus on such a matter would be possible without American assurances, possibly including security guarantees.

The three Kurdish women, the youngest reported to be 19, had been afraid to leave without assurances for their safety.

Without such assurance I should certainly have left it alone, and bestowed my energy on some other endeavour.

Without assurances about the levees, many exiles do not want to move back.

But that's unlikely to happen without assurances on bank assets and liabilities.

Bruckner, indeed, rarely accepted a new job without assurance that he could go back to his old one - in case things didn't work out.

Without assurances that there will be a buyer for the power, investors will not step forward.

As a result, some administrations may be reluctant to institute wide-spread change without assurance of results.

For of us is required a blind trust, and a hope without assurance, knowing not what lies before us in a little while.

A president would be reckless to attempt a wide-ranging operation like this without assurances from his own team that it was possible.