(n.) The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
(n.) The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
(n.) Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
(n.) Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
(n.) Betrothal; affiance.
(n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.
(n.) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(3) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(4) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
(5) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(6) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(7) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(8) "Recent developments have once again brought into question the validity of assurances by the US about its use of Diego Garcia," say the MPs.
(9) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(10) The scheme has an important role in histopathology quality assurance.
(11) At the very least, Arsenal have assured themselves of a place in the Europa League.
(12) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
(13) When accreditation is viewed and administered appropriately, it is an opportunity for self-improvement and a tool for quality assurance.
(14) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(15) Current residency training does not assure competency in all of the procedures the general internist does in practice.
(16) Ten patients (16.67 per cent) of the mortality group were in the ninety-ninth percentile of risk, whereas these factors or variables of similar weight produced an equivalent risk of only 0.34 per cent of the survivors; thus, operative death in these circumstances could be predicted with an estimated 98.0 per cent assurance.
(17) This is a correlative study of normal anatomy of the lumbosacral spine and pelvis demonstrated by SPECT and radiography in order to assure that morphologic detail resulting from SPECT is recognized and matched with radiographic landmarks in the same area.
(18) Until the dental profession defines quality to include psychological, sociologic, and economic factors and establishes measurable standards of performance, dental quality assurance cannot exist in any meaningful way.
(19) A comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program should be implemented for all teleradiology and picture archival and communications (PACS) systems.
(20) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
Impudently
Definition:
(adv.) In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet it was still an encouraging victory for Mourinho’s team and a difficult afternoon for Tottenham Hotspur was probably summed up by the moment Dele Alli, the impudent young buck, tried to upstage Michael Carrick by slipping the ball through his opponent’s legs.
(2) Ozil is an impudent playmaker who usually flits behind the lone striker, finding space and creating opportunities with his sublime left foot.
(3) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
(4) Caballero could not keep out Emre Can’s impudent little pitch-wedge to get the penalties underway but thereafter he was unbeatable, diving to his left to turn away a decent attempt by Lucas Leiva, a hesitant one from Philippe Coutinho, and then the other way to beat out Adam Lallana’s effort for his third successive save.
(5) Henderson skied a glorious chance over from Sterling's pass and it needed an instinctive save from Lloris to prevent Sturridge scoring with an impudent back-heel.
(6) Robbing the Royal Mail was, as the trial judge, Mr Justice Edmund Davies, told Biggs , "a crime which, in its impudence and enormity, is the first of its kind in this country."
(7) The nutmeg from Messi left him on his backside and, high in the stands, Pep Guardiola could be seen with his head in his hands, howling with laughter at the impudence of his former player.
(8) The judge told them, as he sent them away for 30 years, that it was “a crime which in its impudence and enormity is the first of its kind in this country.
(9) Arsenal played at times as if it would have been impudent to trouble the Spaniard.
(10) Chelsea were stunned, almost into submission and when Lanzini, whose impudent touches and ease on the ball made him a delight to watch, carved them open with a delightful backheel, Aaron Cresswell would have made it 2-0 if Branislav Ivanovic had not deflected his effort past the left post.
(11) Both players scored within three minutes of one another and, however impudent it was for Mourinho to shake Ferguson's hand and set off for the dugout with the final exchanges of stoppage time still to be played, the truth is the game had already been won.
(12) New junior doctors' contract changes everything I signed up for Read more With sickness levels running at record levels, you would expect the government to act more sensitively and with less impudence.
(13) As a reward for my impudence, I was sent on my way with a pat on the shoulder, a "well done, son".
(14) He decorated a driving performance with an impudent nutmeg on Luka Modric.
(15) What kind of a union of partners treats one of its members like a recalcitrant colony, destroys its economy if it steps out of line, and dismisses its democracy as an impudent affront?
(16) Before being cut off by a prison official, Tolokonnikova said: "I hope they don't have the impudence to jail him – because, after all, he is even more of a media figure among the people than the members of Pussy Riot, at least in Russia .
(17) But instead of closing ranks and crushing this impudent upstart, Cameron and Brown fell over themselves to win his support.
(18) "It has become a symbol of women's freedom in western nations and with impudence they want to free her," the foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast protested last month.
(19) Add ingenious, impudent finishing and you have a footballer who truly quickens the pulse."
(20) Yet it is not so easy understanding why Rooney, playing so well in his new midfield role, needs to be rested (England’s next game would not be until Saturday at the earliest) and it is worth keeping in mind Slovakia beat Spain in qualifying and were impudent enough to win 3-1 when Germany invited them to Augsburg for a friendly a few weeks ago.