Sentences with phrase «given verbal assurances»

Ministers have given verbal assurances that the bill's powers, which would allow them to make orders to change primary legislation in all but a few specific instances, would not be used to change major laws such as the right to trial by jury.

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But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).
«We give some weight to the assurances received in December 2005 about how he would be treated were he returned to face a retrial... and to the verbal assurances which have been received,» the SIAC said.
It will be voted on 13 December, on the eve of the Summit and, whatever verbal assurances are given by the government, democratically minded MPs from across the Brexit divide — and indeed the party political one — must stand up for democracy and vote for parliament to have the strongest possible final say on the deal.
However, it had been given «verbal assurances» that nothing so far had been found.
Despite verbal assurances given by Commissioner Malmström, who has radically excluded a possible lowering of PP standards in Europe, the issue deserves to be addressed more carefully.
While I certainly see the anger in those that wasted big bucks with FindLaw, such a suit on these terms seems to be a no - win situation since the actual contract that the lawyers signed with FindLaw would govern, there are unlikely to be any such written «first page» assurances, and the verbal assurances (even if admissible given the existence of a written contract) would likely differ from case to case.
Bear in mind that there have been cases where a verbal, or even written, assurance has been given by the insurance company to go ahead a receive treatment, but then later when the claim has been made, the company has declined and refused to pay.
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