Safety assurances cannot be guaranteed because there is always a first time for incidents to happen. |
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But Mr Lamb said he was unable to make assurances about the long-term safety of jobs. |
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Contempt proceedings were dismissed after the men gave assurances that they would abide by the court ruling. |
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Even after assurances that the crash was an accident, many still believe the worst. |
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Mr Greenway will also be calling for assurances that as and when the vacant posts are filled, operations at Malton can be resumed. |
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He repeatedly sought assurances to this effect over a period of three years. |
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Mr Wilmot said he could not give any assurances that this would not happen. |
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Some analysts and Western diplomats, however, are skeptical of their assurances. |
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Similarly, letters of comfort may be either binding contracts or informal and uncertain assurances resting entirely upon business goodwill. |
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Mrs Muir said assurances were given to MPs as late as last month that there would be no compulsory redundancies. |
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Please avoid general conjectures about when such unreliable assurances must doubtless have been made. |
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They want assurances from the Department that every case will be treated on its own merits. |
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Every new record is accompanied by assurances that all borrowers are being stress-tested and that their loan books are hunky-dory. |
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But there are no assurances that your new home state won't pass additional tax legislation if it gets into a budget crunch situation. |
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His assurances that his editors would have full control was an outright lie. |
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Despite the assurances given at that time, the state bureaucratic delays continue as if to prove the truth of the adage that old habits die hard. |
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Such an informal check on the Court could give the public some assurances that law clerks are not running an incapacitated justice's office. |
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Charles's assurances that he had letters of support from sympathisers in England are themselves evidence of anxiety. |
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Such assurances, however, fail to satisfy environmental groups who are now demanding government restrictions on the widespread use of biocides. |
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Despite assurances from the top, many employees at the Kendal plant left work last week in fear of losing their jobs. |
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After assurances that we would all fit in my car and they could put their pram in the boot they accepted. |
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I can't give assurances, but we have done everything humanly possible to make sure it does not. |
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Rather than watchdogging the issue, the press just passed on the false assurances. |
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Basic errors are repeated time and again, despite fine words and earnest assurances to this committee. |
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We have been hearing the same promises and assurances for more than 10 years now. |
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With every new tragedy, state officials respond with palliative measures and assurances that the issue will be studied further. |
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He multiplied assurances to the establishment, claiming that constitutional government was safe. |
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Wall Street ignored his assurances that the long-term prospects were largely unaffected. |
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It's another smokescreen to cover earlier learned assurances that the Australians were a bunch of pie eaters. |
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Oral guarantees or assurances are worthless should a dispute arise in the future. |
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The job losses earlier this year came despite assurances made last October that there would be no mass job losses. |
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They were frightened until our men gave them food, clothing, and assurances of safety. |
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We walk humbly before God, not claiming divine assurances as our own prerogative. |
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They feel let down by the yearly assurances that water for Tullamore households will be sourced from elsewhere. |
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He is waiting for assurances from the British Government that he will not be arrested when he arrives in the country. |
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He added his assurances that there were no current plans to sell or close the site. |
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Laidlaw has given assurances that his schools would remain comprehensives and would take everyone from the catchment area. |
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This came despite earlier assurances from the store's administrators that jobs would be safe. |
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He also spared few people his assurances that just about no one was as powerful as he was. |
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After lengthy and heated debates, many assurances were given by Bexley Council about the new building. |
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So we should welcome the assurances given by the trust this week that the facility's future is absolutely safe. |
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The prisoners demanded assurances that their health had not been compromised. |
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Has Cameron had assurances job cuts won't take place in the UK? Cameron says he has had assurances. |
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The Commission sought further information on, and assurances regarding the security of the promissory note. |
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So we would like to wait and see whether the assurances that he's now held out in recent days are actually concretized in terms of action on the ground. |
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Are there assurances that the franchiser will be able to keep you continually supplied with product at a fair price? |
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As we were a pair of dirty rotten scoundrels, our heartfelt assurances made no difference. |
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The people nurse deep alienation with the political system and cynicism about the democratic process due to their sad experience of broken promises and forgotten assurances. |
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In return for security assurances and economic assistance, Pyongyang in September pledged to dismantle its nuclear arsenal. |
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Accurate knowledge of community needs provided the best assurances that the right programs and services would be implemented. |
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The Spanish health ministry has given assurances that the Spanish public is not at risk, but consternation is growing. |
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What assurances can the government give us that its pet project on marijuana will not jeopardize legitimate trade with the United States? |
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Legitimate businesses need assurances that they will not be undermined by competitors who cut corners. |
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And possibly other such assurances are in fact words of Isaiah himself, compelled by his love to palliate the blow. |
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She sought assurances that in the interest of transparency, no other processes would define or alter the outcome of the drafting groups. |
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Meetings were held on fissile materials, nuclear disarmament, civil infrastructure and negative security assurances. |
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I have heard no one in the debate to date give any assurances that in fact this motion is ironclad in any sense of the word. |
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Of course, assurances against unrelieved double taxation are always applauded by taxpayers. |
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What assurances do Canadians have that that miscarriage of justice will not happen again? |
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For example, we all recall the introduction of decimalisation and, despite our assurances at that time, consumers experienced price increases. |
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They have our assurances that all measures have been taken to ensure that something like that will not happen again. |
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We want Canadians to have the assurances that they will be comfortable and taken care of in their retirement. |
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The parliamentary secretary's assurances that the government is taking action to develop proposals to deliver on its commitments rings hollow. |
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May I therefore enquire, Commissioner, whether you could provide tobacco farmers with assurances on alternative employment? |
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By agreeing to grant us such assurances, the nuclear Powers would demonstrate their good faith. |
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Does the State party seek assurances before extraditing or returning persons to another State? |
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They were able to return on the following day, after receiving assurances of their safety from the head of the Gali administration. |
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By undercutting these core non-proliferation assurances, non-proliferation non-compliance imperils the peace and security of all nations. |
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Sixthly, we need to move forward on regional nuclear-weapon-free zones and negative security assurances. |
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Once again, congratulations on your national holiday. Please accept, Your Highness, the assurances of my highest esteem. |
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To meet those standards, I want to give you some assurances and clarifications. |
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Most players in the Middle East believe such assurances are a snow job. |
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Does anybody in this room seriously believe the assurances that once ATK completes this sale there will be security? |
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His concern is buttressed by the fact that diplomatic assurances are not legally binding and thus have no sanctions for their violation. |
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There are no assurances that the northern part of the route, which will not be finalised until 2014, will see equivalent lengths of tunnelling. |
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Or will voters demand credible assurances of a such commitment? |
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Furthermore, effective implementation of an appropriate internal control system which delivers the assurances needed takes time. |
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But after assurances from the Alliance that he would be safe, the reporter, Tasir Alouni, decided to stay. |
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Fishermen need some assurances that the act will not take away the value of their licence. |
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It then needs to secure assurances that donor partners will maintain their funding for a sufficiently long period. |
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I thank you also for your words of congratulations and the assurances of support addressed to me as well as to my team. |
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Many individuals agreed to share their stories under assurances of confidentiality. |
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For this reason, any new legislation in the realm of food safety should be able to offer enhanced assurances to consumers. |
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The assurances of faith are eventually replaced with the assurances of truth. |
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Who is going to be taken in by promises or assurances in election time? |
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Once I have assurances from both authorities I will look at the town as a whole and take a holistic view of the problem, rather than an emotive one. |
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The republic did expropriate ecclesiastical properties, but Mazzini was sincere in his assurances that property would be respected and unlawful acts punished. |
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The special tables in the prospectus are a scheme for enlargeable term assurances, that is, for assurances at low rates which will run out altogether at the age of sixty or sixty-five. |
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They therefore try to soften the blow for anyone entering their brave new world with assurances. |
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Instead, we get reasoned debates on how to force the world to love us or assurances that the ungrateful wretches should love us for their own good. |
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Get assurances that the caterer adheres to health and safety regulations, for the sake of your guests, and that food is transported in refrigerated vans, and such like. |
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Mr Blake said his case was that, not being able to read or write, he had no knowledge of being an overstayer and relied on his wife's assurances she had regularised his stay. |
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Japan-Korea ties will hinge on what Tokyo expects and can ultimately get out of Pyongyang, especially in security assurances versus war reparations. |
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He also gave assurances on funding and promised a proposal for the Government to pay the loading on haemophiliacs's insurance premiums would be looked at in September. |
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It was here that Richard II received Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, as Henry Bolingbroke's ambassador, and accepted assurances of safe conduct which proved to be false. |
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Despite assurances that the SA80 was fit for use in desert environments, soldiers on several occasions released the safety catch only to find they still could not fire. |
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First, the two sides understood that minimal advance assurances were needed to inoculate the meeting against a debacle. |
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Despite repeated FBI assurances that cops are equal partners in the war against terrorism, local cops say they frequently feel like second-class citizens. |
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And world powers said they were ready to reciprocate, if Iran gave significant assurances. |
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Sinn Fein is understood to have given assurances of fresh co-operation to identify their unmarked graves, allowing their families to lay them to rest. |
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In particular it wants assurances that the checks the industry has in place to ensure that the bacteria causing botulism does not get into baby products are adequate. |
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How the non-playing staff would love those kind of assurances. |
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The Commission has raised the issue of the millennium bug on various occasions with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and has received assurances that they are aware of the problem and have programmes to address it. |
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Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others. |
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This means, inter alia, that we have demanded assurances in terms of efficient administration, decentralisation, swift payments, avoidance of bottlenecks and scrutiny of funds. |
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But the idealistic Craft did not respond to a journalistic inquiry earlier this month asking whether he would still stand by his assurances to Congress eleven years ago that Vietnam would allow more freedoms for its people. |
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In the context of these reported practices, reliance' on diplomatic assurances constitutes a clear attempt to pervert justice that must be exposed and brought to an end. |
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In that regard, the legitimate need for security of non-nuclear-weapon States is incompatible with the unilateral declarative character of these assurances and the conditions to which they are subject. |
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We have sought and received assurances that he is being treated humanely. |
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These provisions are also needed to provide assurances to the provinces and territories that they can lawfully share information with the federal government. |
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It is not possible to provide a strict definition of the circumstances in which the Government would seek to obtain assurances, or the exact nature of the assurances required. |
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The RMT is in dispute over the introduction of new trains after seeking assurances over jobs, buffet car facilities and maintenance. |
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As for the false statement made to his supervisor and to the Commission in July of 2005, the Applicant testified that he relied on assurances given from his attorney that his record would be cleansed. |
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It was therefore considered preferable to put forward an approach which is realistic, based on assurances of transparency regarding the action taken in response to the most flagrant breaches. |
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Until such a treaty comes into existence, we also urge nuclear-weapon States to fully respect the commitments already made in relation to negative security assurances. |
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However, I met the wife of Mr Kozulin and obtained assurances from Speaker Konoplev that the Ambassador of Germany in Minsk, Mr Hecker, will be able to visit Mr Kozulin in the near future. |
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But, for the small segment of the population that he is concerned with, those statements are assurances that they are not monochromatically white. |
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Despite such assurances there is concern that not enough may be done and historic abuse may still sometimes be covered up. |
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I have received assurances that the discretion afforded to the attorney general and the director of military prosecutions is appropriate and that it is also supported by police and provincial attorneys general. |
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Until the galamsey are fully registered there can be no assurances that illegally mined foreign diamonds are not entering the system of Ghana and subsequently sent to the international trading centres. |
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But organisers' assurances were not enough to put to rest the speculation that abounded on social media, amidst persistant concerns for the athletes' safety. |
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As a result of this campaign, a significant number of MDF members have expressed support for and willingness to take part in the elections, giving assurances not to interfere with the democratic process. |
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From time to time, we also enter into agreements to provide financial or performance assurances to third parties on the sale of assets, business divestitures, guarantees and U. S. Government contracts. |
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The French now sent some weapons and funds, and assurances that they would carry out their invasion of England by the end of the year. |
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British assurances to the Poles led the British Empire to declare war on Germany. |
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However, it is only right that the British Government should give categoric assurances that the highest possible safety standards will be met, because this issue is of huge concern to the people of Ireland and to many others. |
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Despite the assurances that DC Comics would not interfere with Moore and his work, they subsequently did so, angering him. |
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Here, at Monday morning parleys between the two party leaders and in meetings of Cabinet Office panjandrums, compromises are brokered, assurances given and caveats established. |
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It is apparent that his incessant assurances of his heterosexuality are the words of one who protests too much. |
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It would also be useful to learn whether the State party sometimes asked for diplomatic assurances before deporting foreigners to another country. |
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The children of Duvalier highlight for their childbirth easiness, the capacity milkmaid of their females, spectacular muscular development, their character raced and quality of assurances. |
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You have been chosen by God to offer them the living water of the Gospel, encouraging them to place their hopes, not in the vain enticements of this world, but in the firm assurances of the next. |
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For example, anglophones, aboriginals and allophones in Quebec have firm assurances that they will not be expelled, fired from their jobs, stripped of their property or citizenship, systematically harassed on the street, etc. |
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Other employees of SFK Pulp, including those of the Fairmont and Menominee Mills, are not part of a union and there are no assurances that such employees will not form or join a union. |
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On 11 April 2005, in conformity with the assurances it had made to the Committee at the eighty-first session, the Central African Republic submitted its second periodic report. |
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In my view if the right security and other assurances can be provided these alone are compelling reasons for us to continue our efforts to make a difference in the Central African Republic. |
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Some might argue that in the tightest confines of control where there are absolute safeguards and assurances it is only by accident that an extra embryo would exist. |
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It was for this reason that the Manitoba Act contained specific assurances that the mixed bloods of Red River would receive adequate land assignments. |
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If those criteria are to be met and any decision to authorise trade is to be possible, assurances must be forthcoming that the activity is not detrimental to the state of conservation of the species. |
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Countries that have given up the nuclear option and accepted to implement effectively the non-proliferation regime deserve a reward in the form of negative security assurances. |
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Three hundred and thirty-one innocent people were killed and no answers, no justice, no assurances about what needs to change so that it does not happen again. |
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Mr Cameron, in turn, wants assurances that Britain will not be isolated in the European Banking Authority, which sets common rules and mediates among bank regulators, if the 17 members of the euro zone start acting as one. |
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When the Guardian reported in 2009 that, despite previous assurances to the contrary, phone-hacking had been widespread during Coulson's editorship, Cameron didn't even raise the subject with him. |
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The state of emergency imposed in response to alleged suspicions of a plot to overthrow the government of President Gloria Arroyo is still in force despite assurances and promises to the effect that it would be lifted. |
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Only when the commissioners gave assurances that hunting, fishing and trapping rights would be guaranteed did the Indians at the various trading posts agree to sign the treaty. |
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Rebel commanders are seeking assurances from Washington that if they sign a peace deal with the Colombian government, the United States will not be an obstacle to implementing agreements reached at the table. |
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Edward sent assurances to the Pope that the conflict surrounding Gaveston's role was at an end. |
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Of course she can, because this is the kind of cool restaurant in Portland, Oregon, where patrons regularly seek elaborate assurances about the virtuousness of their food. |
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Despite repeated assurances that no Northern Territory remote homelands would be closed, a lack of government communication has left leaders in the Arnhem land community of Milingimbi believing it to be inevitable. |
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Based on those assurances, the Town of Ajax expressed its satisfaction that its comments may be addressed after CNSC acceptance of the initial plan. |
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After government assurances, the Japanese, although obsessed with food safety, have remained calm: at lunchtime in Tokyo workers still tuck into vegetable and shrimp tempura. |
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What I would like to hear from Commissioner Cathy Ashton are assurances on a number of matters which I know will be extremely important for the Côte d'Ivoire. |
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In spite of manifold assurances that the various MNA schemes will not affect national rights to develop the various parts of the fuel cycle, this concern still seems to be prevalent. |
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Already, North Korea has reputedly asked China for assurances of aid should the US launch air strikes against it in some later stage of the war on terrorism. |
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Dugher questioned why the government had allowed 17 train operators to run no service on Boxing Day, and asked what assurances had been given over contingencies should work overrun. |
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A senior Berlin official has said that assurances could be introduced during modest treaty revisions to ensure that the interests of Britain and other non-euro members are protected in the European single market. |
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He said: General assurances alone will not open borders. |
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Although Prime Minister Hun Sen has given assurances that nobody would be immune from prosecution, he has also indicated that this is a very sensitive issue for parts of the Cambodian population. |
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Although no assurances can be made, Quebecor World believes that the U. S. Plan satisfies the requirements of the Bankruptcy Code and is confirmable. |
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Since then, every incoming prime minister has been asked to provide the Commons with fresh assurances that the Wilson doctrine remains unviolated. |
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We would appreciate assurances from your association that should Health Canada make this pill available without a prescription across Canada that your members will inform women of its potential to act as an abortifacient. |
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Governor Musgrave had mollified opposition by the unelected members of the assembly with assurances that they would receive pensions or new positions after Confederation. |
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Such extra assurances also include the audit of the Annual Audit Plan, ex post transactional monitoring, missions on the ground, and monitoring reports. |
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Instead, the pathetic situation arose in which the leaders of the large groups appeared as professional mourners', giving their assurances that their refusal to give discharge was really only pretend. |
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Moreover, most such assurances would become inoperative in the case of an attack on the States providing the assurances or their allies mounted by a nuclear-weapon State or in alliance with it. |
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A modus vivendi has been established on the basis of assurances from the committee that this power would be used sparingly in exceptional circumstances. |
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Although they were charged with a bailable offence and despite assurances that they would not abscond, the magistrate rejected the bail application filed by the women's defence lawyers. |
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The Australian Attorney-General's Department avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Bureau assurances of its highest consideration and esteem. |
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belize avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Embassy of France the assurances of its highest consideration. |
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Therefore there were assurances that the government would not force upon them substantial changes in their way of life and that they would be permitted to hold their land collectively in reserves or in severalty. |
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Further proof of immortality lies in the accumulation of testimony and evidence by the psychical research and spiritualistic movements, in individual experiences and in the inner assurances of the human heart and mind. |
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Such assurances can play an important role: they can serve both as an incentive to forgo the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction and as a deterrent. |
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Most disturbing are the statements by the Privacy Commissioner that he received assurances from your officials assuaging his concerns about this legislation, after which the government acted in a contrary fashion. |
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Even after they tried to meet with the Canada Post regional representatives and given assurances that they would have their postal service maintained, they still are being left out in the cold. |
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The assurances of the President of the Treasury Board and his recent ramblings and fulminations do very little to give Canadians the assurances they are looking for. |
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The EIS provided assurances that during full quarry operation, every possible measure would be taken to reduce projectrelated noise to extremely low levels through muffling, containment and suppression. |
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One of the amendments agreed to at committee includes a progressive enforcement program, which includes assurances of compliance and notices of violations without penalty. |
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According to the Pentagon inspector general, the COIC would open a floodgate of inappropriate data collection, despite assurances to the contrary by JIEDDO leadership. |
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Until such time as nuclear weapons were eliminated, nuclear-weapon States had an obligation to give security assurances to non-nuclearweapon States. |
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For money market funds, there can be no assurances that a fund will be able to maintain its net asset value per security at a constant amount or that the full amount of your investment in a fund will be returned to you. |
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The current wording in Bill C-20 gives no assurances that aboriginal peoples will have any role, and it belittles our place in Confederation and reduces us to being just another interest group. |
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Although a lot of people are honest enough to say they don't know enough about it, among those who think they do, the government's assurances about the innocuousness of the new constitution are not believed. |
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They therefore caution against further implementation of the current mobility programme without assurances of the preservation of the Organization's institutional memory. |
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In effect, this means there is no basis for federal assurances that religious officials cannot be compelled to officiate at marriages contrary to the tenets of their faith. |
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Diminish the role of nuclear weapons by making no-first-use pledges, by giving assurances not to use them against non-nuclear-weapon States and by not developing nuclear weapons for new tasks. |
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Replying to the United States representative, he said that he hoped that the assurances given him in Madrid about his security, should he visit Iraq, would facilitate such a visit in the near future. |
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Despite assurances from the GBGB chairman that 2010 would see the issue of commerciality addressed, that has not happened. |
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We are aware that the supporters of this Bill suggest that this concern is without legal foundation but, given the challenges to religious freedom in the last few years, we are not willing to rely on these assurances. |
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In making this call, I am not at all discounting the importance of preventing an arms race in outer space, or negative security assurances, or nuclear disarmament per se. |
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These projects will provide enhanced quality assurances and increased marketability for our antler and meat products to consumers in Canada and in international markets. |
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Labour's emphasis on low pay, bad jobs, high rents and ends that never meet clashes with George Osborne's glowing assurances that everything is going swimmingly. |
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Many governments cannot give such assurances for future years, and in such cases it is wise for the water sector to be as financially self-reliant as possible. |
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Whether or not assurances were accompanied by monitoring, the UK would only remove where it was satisfied the arrangements were such that removal could take place compatibly with its international obligations. |
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It is not logical to oppose binding measures in the field of negative security assurances and at the same time to deplore the risks of nuclear proliferation. |
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This is one of the basic rules of international negotiations, of international diplomacy, and should really provide sufficient assurances when one has fear of surprises of arbitrariness. |
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Licensee is hereby given notice that none of the forenamed persons is authorized by Licensor to make any such amendments or to provide any such assurances. |
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President Koroma is yet to assent to the bill and has provided assurances that concerns raised by stakeholders pertaining to the independence of the proposed corporation would be addressed. |
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So notwithstanding any assurances that we get about the safe storage, I guess my question is why is there a need to retain the unblurred version in any event? |
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His embracement of Popery beginning to make a noise, he decoyed several of the most eminent Protestant clergymen in France to give assurances of the contrary. |
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On this occasion, Henry gave oral assurances that he considered himself bound by the charters, enabling a royal inquiry into the situation in the counties to progress. |
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Rogge later denied that any such meeting had taken place, but failed to insist that China adhere to its prior assurances that the Internet would not be censored. |
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In this form, the applicants must give assurances that they will comply with the Olympic Charter and with any other regulations established by the IOC Executive Committee. |
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Though NATO leaders gave assurances that the system was not targeting Russia, both presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev criticized it as a threat. |
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Luther sought assurances about life and was drawn to theology and philosophy, expressing particular interest in Aristotle, William of Ockham, and Gabriel Biel. |
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William would not invade England without assurances of English support, and so in April, he asked for a formal invitation to be issued by a group of leading English statesmen. |
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The privileges obtained by the Hansa included assurances that only Hansa citizens would be allowed to trade from the ports where they were located. |
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But it would be a major shock if the Bluebirds boss upped sticks to The Hawthorns and it's thought he has already given assurances to City that he is going nowhere. |
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