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Examples of assurance

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Investors also are looking for economic, legal and regulatory services - and assurances that the ' rules of the game ' will not change capriciously.
With so many institutions and so few regulators, assurances have not been a meaningful device for filling gaps in the regulation's skimpy substantive rules.
They wanted real, visible i assurances that she and her retinue would be respected, protected, and prominent in the public arena.
Through the unilateral commitments to plans, assurances are generated and stalemates are ended.
In the absence of credible assurances on this score, we might expect to see the achievement of trade liberalization undermined by calls for renewed protection.
If we think of an ex ante increased chance of benefit as itself a benefit, threats can be assimilated to sure assurances.
Because assurances define duties having a substantive regulatory character, they amount to contract-based regulation.
However, the validity of such assurances can be tested by supposing that the boot was on the other foot.
The members of the consultation team expressed frustration at being unable to provide convincing assurances in support of a different course of action.
Certification schemes can give effective plant health assurances to buyers or importers of propagating material and several examples are given.
However, the provision of assurances concerning their predictability is still insufficient, mainly in the context of dependable applications.
I proceeded by applying an argument for the rationality of following through on assurances to the rationality of following through on deterrent threats.
Poverty remained widespread in those areas on the margins of power, and many had tired of the state's failure to fulfill its assurances.
On the one hand, it has a protective face, giving paternalistic assurances and shielding labour from excessive and unfair business demands.
In early third wave transitions, such assurances proved critical to enabling regime change even to begin (ibid : 48).
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Collocations withassurance

assurance

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absolute assurance
I do not think, however, that enquiry into claims of revelation needs be kept on hold until absolute assurance be gained on the points of natural theology.
adequate assurance
These are some of the gaps in our measures for giving people an adequate assurance of security.
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