| She heeded the reassurances of people who told her that it is normal and safe to fall asleep while cuddling a tiny baby. |
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| We should neither accept easy reassurances nor hysterical scare stories which latch onto individual pieces of research. |
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| Despite such reassurances, once the Pandora's box of the recall motion has been opened, there is no telling what pestilence will result. |
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| The diplomats will be on hand to offer their condolences and reassurances to the grief-stricken nurses. |
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| Instead, they have been issued only general reassurances that private companies will make allowances for them. |
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| Despite constant reassurances to the director on the proposed sale, commercial negotiations have yet to be completed by the company. |
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| The scream, and the voices that answered with soothing reassurances, came from down the hall. |
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| Institutional investors are understood to be seeking reassurances that companies will take on board their concerns. |
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| So, as you would expect, the golfers wanted reassurances, guarantees and prompt answers to any questions they might have. |
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| York MP Hugh Bayley is now demanding reassurances from the health trusts into which his Government pumped thousands of extra pounds. |
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| The Selby and York Primary Care Trust, which will administer the new service, offers its reassurances that the good work will continue. |
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| Festival organizers seem to have keyed into the public anxiety over their use of the park and are offering plenty of reassurances. |
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| There are no reassurances, but I understand fully what the member and Mr Donnelly are talking about, and we do not have a problem. |
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| They aren't the only ones who want answers or reassurances that such a power outage won't happen again. |
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| Notice that his reassurances about her doubts initially take the form of a warning about the dangers of narrative. |
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| This negative response occurs despite reassurances that it will take a short time to complete. |
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| And councillors are demanding reassurances that correct procedures were followed. |
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| The Europhile former chancellor wanted reassurances about the direction Mr Howard intends to take the party. |
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| She described him as a man of his word and said they should trust reassurances he's made about any future Supreme Court appointments. |
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| However, positive inducements and reassurances must be credible and truly attractive. |
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| The agreement has yet to be finalised, and Kent councillors are understood to be seeking reassurances about their end of the deal before they sign on the dotted line. |
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| He chats to the parents for a while, gives some reassurances, accepts some gratitude, but he won't stay long. |
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| They received sketchy answers and reassurances falling well short of guarantees. |
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| Efforts have subsequently focused on additional reassurances and clarifications on the provisions of the date-based export scheme. |
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| Because of concerns about distortions of local economies and the depletion of fish stocks, we also seek some further reassurances. |
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| It does not reassure me and I would like further reassurances about profiling and data-mining. |
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| I hope that those reassurances will meet the very important points made by the rapporteur. |
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| But for a full day, there was nothing but apologetic reassurances over the loudspeaker. |
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| Despite these reassurances, the actual implementation of the principle has given rise to some debate and uncertainty. |
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| If we can take his reassurances at face value, why does he not simply exclude health from the scope of this directive? |
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| Plato listened intently, offering reassurances every step of the way. |
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| Unfortunately, I doubt whether such reassurances will silence the critics. |
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| However, the unimaginable may well happen, and is about to happen, despite the reassurances that are being given. |
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| This time, however, the World Health Organization is maintaining its empty reassurances, and the microwave industry is benefiting. |
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| However, neither the political conditions in Colombia nor the terms of the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement provide these reassurances. |
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| Public reassurances by federal officials were meant to obfuscate the reality behind the changes. |
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| We noted with interest the reassurances provided by the Myanmar leadership to that end. |
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| The first was the private, then public, minuet of reassurances to the two visitors. |
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| Credence can no longer be given to the reassurances and declarations of intention given by its ruler. |
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| Threats to daub British pupils with the black mark of truancy were cushioned with reassurances that there was plenty of opportunity to discuss war and peace in the classroom. |
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| The intervening period has also served to provide much-needed reassurances and guarantees that the original decision to lift the ban was soundly based. |
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| It is essential that southerners in the North and northerners in the South are given strong reassurances that they will not be harassed regardless of the outcome of the Referendum. |
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| We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another. |
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| For years the British Government has tried to fob off many politicians and environmental groups in Ireland with reassurances about the Sellafield and Thorp nuclear plants. |
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| Compared with the high-minded work that agencies created during World War II, much of it demanding sacrifice from citizens, today's advertising relies far more on reassurances that victory is achievable through sybaritism. |
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| Donors may feel daunted at the thought of having to overextend to meet charitable pledges that they can no longer afford and will want reassurances as to the legal consequences of walking away from existing pledge agreements. |
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| This time reassurances are being given that freedom of religion is not at risk and that the objectives are to prohibit the incitement or willful promotion of hatred or the advocacy of genocide. |
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| Besides, if Mr Cameron's reassurances are worth anything, child benefit is safe, which only leaves means-tested payments, where cuts are guaranteed to increase child poverty. |
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| Titus Corlatean said he had received reassurances from the British foreign secretary, William Hague, that the UK would comply with its obligations under European law. |
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| The Commission explained that the delay was due to technical changes in budgetary procedures and gave reassurances that matters had now been reviewed. |
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| As the Ethyl case subsequently proved, these reassurances were unfounded. |
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