It's also important to recognize that even a preventive mastectomy is not a guarantee against cancer.
Some investors view the investigation as a guarantee against fraud while others view it as a paid-for whitewash.
They are going to need to lodge millions with the London courts as a guarantee against legal costs if their case is lost.
And at least the discipline of the election circus provides some guarantee against a successful candidate's economic profligacy, dictatorial impulses or sheer incompetence.
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Similarly, DLP is no guarantee against leaks: because it cannot tell what is in encrypted files, data can be wrapped up and smuggled out.
But if they seem threatening to Georgians, from the perspective of the Abkhaz and the South Ossetians, they are a crucial guarantee against possible Georgian aggression.
Europe does not want any Eurozone member to go bankrupt: it looks bad and worse, it demonstrates that being in the Euro-club is no guarantee against financial crisis.
But this hardly amounts to a cast-iron guarantee against fraud.
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Half would be reinvested in 30-year Greek government debt, with the remaining 20% put into triple A securities as a form of guarantee against losses on the Greek debt.
But the regulators all acknowledged that the financial system is still exposed to risk, and Steel said there was no guarantee against future problems like the one that befell Bear Stearns.
There is no guarantee against unscrupulous inspectors clandestinely collecting samples and conducting off-site analysis to glean information on the chemical content of American products and the processes involved in making them.
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As we are seeing play out in the Middle East at the hands of Islamists of various stripes, democracy is no guarantee against people who are actually hostile to it - some of whom are perfectly capable of concealing that hostility to advance their purposes.
Naysayers claim that the place has overextended itself, that many of its vaunted projects are real-estate scams, and that the emirate can afford to spend so wildly only because the giant stores of oil in neighbouring Abu Dhabi, the anchor-state of the United Arab Emirates, offer a guarantee against default.
Using the Memory Spot, medical supply company McKesson might enable pharmacists to guarantee against drug piracy with an authorization dot on the tops of drug containers, or aid elderly patients in following prescription guidelines via a reader on a pendant or a cell phone that accesses the dot on their pill bottles.
Using the Memory Spot, medical supply company McKesson (nyse: MCK - news - people ) might enable pharmacists to guarantee against drug piracy with an authorization dot on the tops of drug containers, or aid elderly patients in following prescription guidelines via a reader on a pendant or a cell phone that accesses the dot on their pill bottles.
Moreover, coaches of high-major programs were held to a higher standard because of their ability to purchase guarantee games against smaller programs that could pad their records.
The WEF calls for negotiations in which development banks the World Bank or regional ones like the Asian Development Bank would use public funds from the rich world to guarantee investors against these sorts of country risks.
Just imagine how much more investigation brokerage firms would do concerning all the garbage that they touted if they had to guarantee customers against loss of principal or if they were only going to get paid a success fee from profits.
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No vaccine can offer a 100% guarantee of protection against an infection.
No member or person associated with a member shall guarantee a customer against loss in connection with any securities transaction or in any securities account of such customer.
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It was unclear how Karzai expected the United States or any of its allies to guarantee Afghanistan's borders against attack.
Strategies discussed do not guarantee a profit or ensure against loss.
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And bringing the implicit guarantee of other sovereigns to bear against the risk of redenomination would create new problems.
The Second Amendment was meant to guarantee individuals the right to protect themselves against government as much as against private bad guys and gangs.
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In return for offering a guarantee, Sotheby's and Christie's will typically take a commission of 25% of any bid above the guarantee level, sometimes more against a normal commission rate of 12%.
His pace and bounce and willingness to bowl bouncers ensures that even on the days you score runs against him, you can guarantee you will be left with your fair share of bruises, or badges of honour, as we like to describe them in the engine-room at the top of the order.
So instead of lifting inflationary expectations, the BOJ would simply guarantee that the yen would hold its value against the dollar.
Labour backbencher David Winnick urged Mr Cameron to guarantee that no military action would be taken against Libya without "direct authorisation" from the United Nations Security Council.
He said he will wrap the ankle up and get treatment on Friday but is not a guarantee to play New Year's Eve against the Sacramento Kings.
Congressional leaders said in mid-September they are eyeing a pre-election vote on a resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam Hussein, which would guarantee that Iraq, and the larger war on terrorism, remain a dominant issue throughout the fall.
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