adequate assurance

collocation in English

meaningsofadequateandassurance

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adequate
adjective
uk
/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us
/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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assurance
noun
uk
/əˈʃɔː.rəns/us
/əˈʃʊr.əns/
a ...
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(Definition ofadequateandassurancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These are some of the gaps in our measures for giving people anadequateassuranceof security.
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Have weadequateassurancethat these things are going to be provided?
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It has not been given anyadequateassuranceabout the safety of the actual vessel.
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I should scarcely regard that as anadequateassurance.
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They did not get what they regarded asadequateassurance.
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We have not yet had a veryadequateassuranceon that point.
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I gave anadequateassurancein regard to research in every possible direction.
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I do not think we ought to leave this matter without a moreadequateassurance.
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I am satisfied that this statement givesadequateassuranceto producers to encourage them to make the necessary preparations for maintaining the output of milk during the winter period.
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Is the assumption that the exchange rate will remain broadly at its present level anadequateassurance to industry, which has to make plans for the future?
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It is not possible to give anadequateassuranceto those pensioners who are now pensioners and to those who have accrued rights up to the date of privatisation.
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The presence of a team from the monitoring force in the vicinity gives usadequateassurancethat the contingent will not be used for other purposes.
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It would be prudent for societies and individuals transmitting money abroad for social purposes to secure adequate assurances as to its use.
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Unfortunately, we have still not received adequate assurances about that.
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But we shall look for adequate assurances about material that is already on the market when the change comes into force.
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First, can he give adequate assurances that no one will be sent back to a country with a bad human rights record?
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Provision was made for this in 1977–78, but it needs to continue for 1978–79 to give adequate assurances to the producers.
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That depends on whether we obtain adequate assurances and an adequate definition of what constitutes a ceasefire.
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He knows that we have not been given adequate assurances that pensioners and others on fixed incomes will not bear the brunt.
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I hope, therefore, that on this regulation we shall get adequate assurances on these points.
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