false assurance

collocation in English

meaningsoffalseandassurance

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false
adjective
uk
/fɒls/us
/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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assurance
noun
uk
/əˈʃɔː.rəns/us
/əˈʃʊr.əns/
a ...
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(Definition offalseandassurancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffalse assurance

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Yet such systems depended upon thefalseassurancethat the body provided a stable site for establishing intelligible racial identification.
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He should have no suchfalseassurance.
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If one is given afalseassurance, one is often prevented from taking further action because one believes that action has been taken on one's past complaint.
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He has given us afalseassurance.
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In doing so, they argue, altar calls may actually give peoplefalseassuranceabout their salvation.
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It was a deed of lawlessness and brute force, thinly disguised in deceit and previous false assurances.
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If we are to give aid to the defence installations there, let us make certain where we are going before we give false assurances.
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If the subject is discussed openly and unemotionally the public will not be worried, but if there is concealment and false assurances the public will be properly troubled.
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Eighteen months were taken between the initial request and sending the report to the complainant during which there were delays and false assurances.
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The report says that they gave false assurances to court, people and the nation.
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A man committed to his word, he has stayed away from ever promising falsely or leading people on with false assurances.
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