| If a speaker does use humor in a speech, make certain the story, anecdote or joke is surefire funny with all listeners. |
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| The evidence suggests that reinventions, in any guises and at whichever end of the scale, are surefire crowd-pleasers. |
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| Apart from the redness and scaliness being unsightly, cracked, dry skin is a surefire route for infection. |
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| It is absolutely unmissable and a surefire contender for one of the albums of the year. |
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| Yet, there is a surefire way to rile the mild-mannered 41-year-old who is the furthest thing in the world from a Rambo. |
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| Inline skating, Nordic skiing and skate skiing are surefire ways to create definition in your buns and legs. |
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| On the surface it may be directed at someone else but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. |
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| Bosnians are famously gloomy but here they can see things being done, which is a surefire vote winner. |
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| For a monarch caterpillar, ingesting milkweed poisons is not a surefire defense against a predatory stinkbug, which harpoons its victims before sucking up the body fluids. |
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| These are surefire ways to get your name, address and telephone number on a junk mail or telemarketing list. |
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| Nathan thinks he has got a surefire win, because Sarah is a prim goody-two-shoes. |
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| Yes, his recent questioning of jail time for marijuana arrests isn't a certain winner, but it's not a surefire loser, either. |
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| For this reason, water features, birdbaths and feeders are surefire ways to invite birds into your yard. |
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| Not having breakfast is a surefire downward spiral to abject misery, hence the genius of this week's theme. |
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| Be aware that outstanding academic credentials are not a surefire guarantee of admission. |
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| Yet, despite the enormous individual and national costs of smoking, finding a surefire way to help people quit still eludes us. |
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| Many of our public drug plans have long relied on a policy of mandatory generic substitution, a surefire way to lower drug costs. |
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| In fact, there is a surefire way to spot a bad report: one that provides the same advice as the last one. |
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| Because there is no known cause for breast cancer, there is no surefire method of prevention. |
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| But even before adults enter their senior years, children are not a surefire way to inoculate against loneliness. |
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| Condemning our houses as unfit for human habitation is a surefire way of clearing this area and making the area which they required for the Academy available. |
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| But in the islands people rave about a squirrel-like critter called the manicou that tastes quite a bit like chicken and is surefire hit at barbecues. |
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| So Hachette and the other publishers were all ears when Steve Jobs came a-calling with a surefire way to jack up e-book prices. |
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| If you should one day decide to be a teacher, or seek a public office, this is a surefire way to block such endeavors. |
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| The only surefire way to prevent that is to be constantly changing up your devices. |
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| Only a few weeks ago, Lincoln was assumed to be the surefire winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. |
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| They used to have a surefire way of sorting out the tyre kickers. |
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| In fact, it is a surefire way to ask for trouble, especially if you are not a brawny entity with plenty of legal and monetary clout to back you all the way. |
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| Though Caine is a previous winner, Law is already thought to be a surefire bet for his performance as a wastrel American shipping heir in The Talented Mr Ripley. |
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| But students and educators alike acknowledge that this is not a surefire way to keep prohibited items off school grounds. |
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| That, however, was until Isobel Christiansen provided a bolt from the blue in injury time, finding the top left-hand corner from fully 40 yards to produce a surefire contender for goal of the tournament. |
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| I have to say that when I hear the government talk about priding itself on openness and accountability, this is a surefire way to ensure that accountability and openness. |
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| I believe that if we combine the culture of secrecy and the culture of entitlement, that is a surefire recipe for potential abuse, for corruption and for scandal. |
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| Dancehall tends to crossover into hip-hop and pop radio every once in a while, and being selected to add a little something to a Beyoncé track means you've got a surefire hit. |
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| If it were possible to make a winning formula, a surefire way to guarantee FIFA World Cup? success, football's greatest trophy would not be the most coveted in the game. |
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| Primitive politics, xenophobia, and high-handed attitudes to the niceties of democracy and the rule of law, have been shown to be electoral liabilities, not a surefire route to success. |
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| Because doing that is a surefire way to achieve a higher standard of living, higher real incomes, increased consumer choice in goods and services at a lower price. |
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| It is the surefire way we will remain relevant in an increasingly competitive world, whether it's to attract new investments, workers or students. |
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| Right now, if you say it's a Canadian movie, it's almost surefire death. |
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| If you are looking for your surefire bet, if you are looking for a production that is commercially viable, I think you're going down the wrong path. |
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| Butterfly's style is surefire jackhammering, pelting floor jams that seemed to show a pair of black shoes shooting across the stage unattached to a body. |
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| The French dreamboat with the flowing locks has secretly auditioned for the next Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes and the diary hears he's a surefire winner. |
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| Walsall Housing Group is establishing Surefire, the first time a programme has been set up with a single energy supplier, to remove the need for complex procurement. |
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| I asked what they were, and they told me they were from SureFire. |
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| From SureFire and Strider Knives, this collaboration offers a matched serial number, limited edition tactical flashlight and knife combination. |
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