How To Use Reassurance In A Sentence

  • This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Festival organizers seem to have keyed into the public anxiety over their use of the park and are offering plenty of reassurances.
  • It is a brilliant idea that gives people reassurance and peace of mind, knowing that their wishes will be found and acted on. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition to medical prescription, victims require emotional support and reassurance which is not available from sources such as the family.
  • Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested.
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  • As a result, they feel they need relief and reassurance more than ever.
  • We are always recruiting telephoners so we can maintain and increase our telephone reassurance program.
  • Bonnycastle also points out that an art book gives collectors more reassurance about an artist's longevity.
  • Minor corrective surgery can help and some understanding reassurance could help your wife too. The Sun
  • So it is bootless for someone to ask for some further reassurance; that can only add to his stock of beliefs.
  • All new technologies generate fears of unknown and perhaps unknowable potential harm, but reassurance is demanded nonetheless.
  • He needs to provide reassurance round the clock. The Sun
  • Despite his blue eyes, fresh complexion and luxuriant white hair, he often sought reassurance about his appearance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes young lads just need to turn to a mother figure for a bit of a chat and reassurance.
  • He said it was the kind of response he expected from his team but, still, he had the air of a man who was mightily happy at the reassurance.
  • Kieran held the animal to the rapid pace with a soft croon of reassurance that Michael doubted he felt.
  • However, positive inducements and reassurances must be credible and truly attractive.
  • We are the counterblast to the easy comfort and cosy reassurance of all things you hate: the unholy amalgam of Zen, Californian, chilled-out, ethnic, post-hippie, Celtic and new age.
  • Support and reassurance that growing pains will pass as children grow up can help them relax.
  • Women who have experienced such loss require considerable reassurance and support in a subsequent pregnancy.
  • Through dry, cracked lips, I began a feeble attempt at reassurance, but was immediately interrupted.
  • Sugar presses forward, rolling this talking Sisyphus stone farther up the slope, flashing William a smile of reassurance.
  • For the prevention of at least some war, what matters is non-provocation and reassurance by means of defensiveness.
  • When music is recognizable, as in a melody with a traditional harmonic accompaniment, we experience reassurance.
  • What reassurance could the world's biggest oil producer provide a rapt audience? Times, Sunday Times
  • Gearing up for the season ending play-offs, the trip gave enough reassurance of the strength in depth at the Club with both newcomers acquitting themselves with distinction.
  • My teacher gave me a nod of reassurance and I began.
  • The comedy of reassurance, still, but with a self-conscious, ironic twist that Bruce Forsyth would never have dreamed of.
  • The route to reassurance is often via modest measures that carry genuine conviction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Increasingly, that reassurance - printed in boldface type - is false.
  • That gives you some reassurance about hygiene, practice, equipment and premises. The Sun
  • They need sufficient reassurance on matters of concern. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is very insecure and constantly seeks reassurance that he loves her.
  • The chapters serve no purpose other than entertainment, save to provide reassurance on two matters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now they wanted the solidity, the reassurance, of metal coins. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
  • There are no reassurances, but I understand fully what the member and Mr Donnelly are talking about, and we do not have a problem.
  • British warships arrived in Gibraltar yesterday, providing a symbolic reassurance to residents. Times, Sunday Times
  • But Villa fans still wanted early reassurances in the second leg. The Sun
  • His reassurance worked insomuch as her evident vulnerability was instantly replaced by an air of nepotal admiration and trust. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • This reassurance gap is a national phenomenon, which is very much apparent in Cumbria.
  • Without support or reassurance from anyone, she faced the seemingly endless questions.
  • But do they mean it or is it just post-coital reassurance?
  • The protesters wanted reassurances that they would not be met with aggressive police tactics. Times, Sunday Times
  • They need reassurance that the next generation will gain from cuts made today. Times, Sunday Times
  • I felt I couldn't cope with the situation and was in desperate need of some reassurance.
  • This time I don't feel that way so much, the wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside feels more like a reassurance that all is well.
  • Swamped with requests for authorizations, statistics that had to be evaluated, decisions that had to be approved, subordinates who had to be coddled, and delegations of Deyzara desperately in need of reassurance, she barely had time to leave her office long enough to say hello to her family before collapsing into the cooled, dehumidified airbed alongside her husband. Drowning World
  • Without this legal reassurance, military leaders and their troops could have laid themselves open to charges of war crimes.
  • The thought that this whole thing was a set-up crossed her mind, involuntarily causing her to grip her gun for reassurance.
  • Although titers aren't perfect indicators of immunity, they are the best tests available to provide owners with some reassurance that their pets are protected and don't need to be revaccinated.
  • Part of this undertaking is banal, and biasedly so: I simply want to find some reassurance about death. We, Who Need Such Great Mysteries | Her Bad Mother
  • Patients of all ages came for medical care, physicals, immunizations and reassurance.
  • A system of beliefs can bring you reassurance at times of stress.
  • This reassurance is all the more important now that the old "verities" of the Cold War are gone. The New NATO—Serving Canada's Interest
  • As though for reassurance he looked up at the imperturbable face in the portrait.
  • Doctors' emphasis on the mildness or earliness of the condition raised the spectre of future pain and disability rather than providing reassurance.
  • I felt I couldn't cope with the situation and was in desperate need of some reassurance.
  • She kept looking in the mirror despite my constant reassurances that her hair looked fine.
  • In his place is a man who trades on trust but whose personality offers limited reassurance.
  • But using a famously queeny actor to accomplish this task of reassurance makes the film interesting to us fifty years later.
  • Conservative MP for South East Cornwall Sheryll Murray, whose trawlerman husband died at sea, wanted reassurances that no coastguard co-ordination centres would close before the new system works. BBC News - Home
  • The family undertakers receive the remains and prepare them, lovingly beautifying them in the white-tiled basement embalming room for the reassurance of the people left behind.
  • In Africa, investors need the reassurance of high commodity prices and consistently strong growth, del Conte at Medicapital said.
  • The Government had previously given reassurances that there had been no such cases. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite her father's reassurances, she was still frightened of the dark.
  • Underneath you both want reassurance, but fear you'll be rejected.
  • The crash demolished that illusion: after October 1929, businessmen, investors and politicians alike watched every economic signal anxiously, seeking reassurance that the financial flameout had not soured the economy as well.
  • The Reunified Christian Church is deeply concerned about the implications of bitek and affinity, for with a person able to call upon the immediate support of thousands of other human minds to any crisis or problem, they grow up better-adjusted and in less need of psychological reassurance. Archive 2009-08-01
  • My children gain comfort and reassurance from me in exactly that tableau.
  • She heeded the reassurances of people who told her that it is normal and safe to fall asleep while cuddling a tiny baby.
  • She accepted the therapist's simple interpretation that this probably inpart explained her excessive need for attention and reassurance from Charles.
  • Now I must say, Casey is not actually a small bird and I too needed the reassurance from the vet that all was fine as we crammed into the examining room, three adults and uncaged cockatoo.
  • Their role will be complementary to police officers, but the main aim is to offer a reassurance to the public and tackle the kind of anti-social behaviour that is dragging down so many neighbourhoods, towns and cities.
  • He had to pay for a wheel clamp to be removed in early April and despite reassurances has still not seen a penny of his £95 back.
  • If only my mother had known about such simple measures as adjusting the feeding position and soothing reassurance.
  • He smiled at her and, in offering her reassurance, broke the spell that held them.
  • Lisa is aware of his constant presence, bringing reassurance and comfort.
  • Since the officers knew little themselves their reassurances were necessarily vague.
  • They need better reassurances that they will be safe. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • With such terms permeating our daily language, it’s not surprising that parents are getting nervous and reaching for reassurance that their kids are indeed psychologically OK. You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!
  • Prosecutors eventually accepted her reassurances that she did not realise that importing oxycodone was a crime. Times, Sunday Times
  • For reassurance that it will raise the finances, a company will usually, but not always, have its rights issue underwritten by an investment bank.
  • ‘This is a gesture done for reassurance and a sort of transfer of strength,’ he said, demonstrating the shoulder clap again.
  • Afterall, there was a shade of reassurance in the predictable, however dire that certain predictable may be.
  • The ministry tried to offer reassurance on the safety of eating beef.
  • They feel the need for constant reassurance from others and there is no privacy any more. Times, Sunday Times
  • Maybe, I thought, she keeps it on for reassurance, because she really may be scared.
  • They aren't the only ones who want answers or reassurances that such a power outage won't happen again.
  • In their place are healthy-looking, fresh faces that carry the reassurance of a couple in harmony.
  • Don't be tempted to seek constant reassurance from others about your progress. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
  • Continual calm reassurance should be given.
  • The route to reassurance is often via modest measures that carry genuine conviction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even Orbuch was surprised to find that men need what she calls affective affirmations - compliments, reassurances and other positive feedback - from their spouses more than women do from their husbands. Billingsgazette.com
  • There's just a touch of power in the sun now, a reassurance that the planet is moving on, tilting towards the light, lengthening the days and getting ready for Spring.
  • Along with the spinach pancakes I also enjoyed some comfort and reassurance.
  • So on your side of the desk is a fretting patient wanting resolution or reassurance. Times, Sunday Times
  • To pre-empt that process by false praise or empty reassurance is not to further the growth of the individual but to cripple it.
  • Perhaps you as a conscience-stricken Christian have found reassurance of His cleansing today.
  • Even non-working phones can be converted to provide a one-touch dial service to 999 and to receive incoming calls for extra reassurance.
  • Most Conservative MPs appear happy with the government's reassurances.
  • They could easily be readapted for military use so the Government needed this reassurance.
  • The arrival of police community support officers and community wardens can help give the public reassurance.
  • In the meantime, it was some slight reassurance to find that however unreal and terrifying my plight might seem to me, the tribe were ready to take it for granted, and even be quite hospitable about it, white-eye though I was. Isabelle
  • Despite constant reassurances to the director on the proposed sale, commercial negotiations have yet to be completed by the company.
  • By the time they disembarked at Lod he was in a state of extreme anxiety in spite of all his partner's soothing reassurances. LOADED QUESTIONS
  • Mr Howe has no such reassurance, particularly with Gallacher absent for five games and no immediate sign of a return.
  • Super-optimists suggest that, perhaps with some changes and reassurance from European leaders, the noes might be turned into yeses, like water into wine.
  • I call this second technique Sir Ian Blair style reassurance Policing; say something stupid about how safe an area is wont be supported by anyone and retreat to their office before anyone recovers their wits from the sheer audacity of the comment to reply. Every Cloud « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • This negative response occurs despite reassurances that it will take a short time to complete.
  • She found reassurance in the high attendance at her lectures.
  • The results often cause needless concern or false reassurance, and can lead to unnecessary procedures that can be invasive, painful and risky. Times, Sunday Times
  • … such narratives of crisis serve more than one category of reassurance: by repeatedly focusing anxiety on the fragility of the new nation, its ostensible vulnerability to every kind of exigency, the state's originating agency is periodically reinvoked and ratified, its access to wide-ranging instruments of power in the service of national protection continually consolidated. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • Rush said for several years, Greater Manchester police and the CST had worked together over the Jewish high holy days to deter antisemitism and criminal activity by providing accessible policing and reassurance. More antisemitic crimes recorded in Manchester than London last year
  • Under Carter's loving hands and melodic reassurances, she gave vent to all her brokenheartedness. Breakfast In Bed
  • They want the familiarity and reassurance and they want to build that trust. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mountains had always been my refuge; in the wind whistling through the crevices, I have long found peaceful reassurance.
  • As a subject area, philosophy still suffers from an image problem sometimes, whether as austere, magisterial or downright difficult, so this reassurance seems entirely appropriate.
  • Through it all, a coach provides a steady stream of encouragement and reassurance.
  • But she was also apprehensive, staying in Bridget's house, and glimpses of the blue square offered little oases of reassurance. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
  • Since then we have enjoyed a similar broad downward trend, with the added reassurance that comes with some of the world's toughest gun laws. Times, Sunday Times
  • Similarly, the religious right preaches a doctrine of reassurance. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
  • Most of them have balconies, too, and on a clear night you will be zipping back and forth between the stupendous sight of the Matterhorn and the snug reassurance of your fireplace.
  • But retailers found reassurance yesterday that borrowing via credit cards and unsecured personal loans was stronger than expected in August. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now they wanted the solidity, the reassurance, of metal coins. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
  • The ministry tried to offer reassurance on the safety of eating beef.
  • Asked by an activist to give reassurance that the Government would ''put defence first'' he suggested that some capabilities ''orientated towards the Cold War'' could be ''divested'' but stressed: ''I have been asked to produce a programme which is adaptive, which will maintain capability across land, sea and air to be able to deal with whatever the future may bring...it will be a few more weeks until we finish the (Strategic Defence and Security) review and then we will set out the best possible and most strategically coherent shape of our Armed Forces that we can do, given the economic train wreck that we inherited from the Labour Party.'' Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • But it's difficult to shake off the notion that day surgery somehow short-changes you as a patient; you don't have the reassurance of being able to stay in overnight.
  • Super-optimists suggest that, perhaps with some changes and reassurance from European leaders, the noes might be turned into yeses, like water into wine.
  • Nor can it offer investors the long-term reassurance that they might need to return to Italian and Spanish bond markets. Euro Zone Risks Becoming Spanish Prisoner With Bond Buys
  • This is because men look to clothes for reassurance and normality, whereas women use them to cut loose and take risks. Times, Sunday Times
  • York MP Hugh Bayley is now demanding reassurances from the health trusts into which his Government pumped thousands of extra pounds.
  • (Stine writes most of the novels in comfy first person to provide a subconscious reassurance that the narrator will live.) Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » October
  • That's no longer much of a reassurance given the housing crash. The Sun
  • You felt very insecure and needed constant reassurance. Times, Sunday Times
  • The diplomats will be on hand to offer their condolences and reassurances to the grief-stricken nurses.
  • As much as that should have been a comfort, a reassurance, it wasn't.
  • We obtain reassurance from a business plan that is neither too similar nor too different to existing successes. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had interviewed her and noted she was nervous and wanted reassurance and comfort.
  • Now they wanted the solidity, the reassurance, of metal coins. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
  • An accountant can provide reassurance that your tax return is correct and you aren't paying too much or too little. Times, Sunday Times
  • They also suffer from depressive disorders and need constant reassurance about their self-worth.
  • Instead, they have been issued only general reassurances that private companies will make allowances for them.
  • If you have confidence in what you are doing, you don't need reassurance from other people. Times, Sunday Times
  • Murmuring to me softly, his confiding smile and the concerned wrinkles on his brow creating gentle reassurance, Vora explained.
  • Parents are looking for reassurance about their children's safety.
  • Governments behave more like tethered goats, bleating reassurance with their eyes tight shut. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the main need for our frail elderly brothers and sisters in Christ is fellowship and reassurance in the gospel.
  • I often seek reassurance from others about the appearance of my perceived flaw. Times, Sunday Times
  • She will also need some reassurance that in future she will be kept safe and that such an event will not repeat itself.
  • They are offering practical help and reassurance.
  • You only get rid of it completely by reassurance. The Sun
  • The mixture of repulsion, fear, fascination, and reassurance conjured up by Moki Snake Dance speaks to both the voyeuristic appeal of the ceremony and the comforting distance provided spectators by the moving picture apparatus.
  • With a nod of reassurance, I would trot off in my little blue Adidas shorts that doubled as swimming trunks, clutching fifty pence for a drink or an ice cream.
  • This is more about his underlying need for reassurance. The Sun
  • She kept looking in the mirror despite my constant reassurances that her hair looked fine.
  • They tend to be overly concerned about abandonment and make unreasonable demands upon a partner for reassurance and nurturance.
  • It's a backhanded reassurance, one that allows for cracks of doubt in the organization's trust-us mentality.
  • All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace.
  • Most of us lie somewhere in between seeking reassurance for the future and comfort for the present. Why am I Afraid to Grieve
  • I dry my eyes and look to her for some sort of reassurance.
  • She has had trouble with her back and was tearful with relief after the comforting reassurance meted out by her principal and tutors.
  • Some vast emptiness seemed to drive him on, a craving for warmth and reassurance.
  • Despite reassurances, New Yorkers streamed into the emergency rooms at the city's St Vincent's Hospital, wanting to know whether their sore throats and runny noses were symptoms.
  • She is torn and needs reassurance for a bit. The Sun
  • He gave her what he hoped was an expression of reassurance. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
  • The Selby and York Primary Care Trust, which will administer the new service, offers its reassurances that the good work will continue.
  • Police have offered reassurances to the public after a registered sex offender was sent to prison for nearly ten years after re-offending.
  • You only get rid of it completely by reassurance. The Sun
  • He needs to provide reassurance round the clock. The Sun
  • Tell him that knowing he has secrets on his camera makes you feel second-best and that you need reassurance. The Sun
  • It combined forcefulness with rhetorical reassurance and bilateral summitry. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, the argument is made with such perseverated, autistic-like frequency that even politicians on the Democratic side feel pressured to echo the same sentiments, though sugar-coated catchphrases fully acessorized with vague, impotent reassurances. Jeanine Molloff: The Character Issue, FISA and The Constitution
  • The Europhile former chancellor wanted reassurances about the direction Mr Howard intends to take the party.
  • Although many are ready to leap to the conclusion that Awlaki helped to "brainwash" and "indoctrinate" these jihadi wannabes, it is much more likely that they sought out the popular Internet preacher because they already self-radicalized to the point of wanting reassurance and further guidance. Scott Atran: Understanding How the Privileged Become Violent Fanatics
  • Unfortunately, I doubt whether such reassurances will silence the critics.
  • She had turned and looked down, as she always did when human complexities made her seek reassurance as to the worth of this world, on the shiny mud-flats, blue-veined with the running tides, and green marshes where the redshanks choired. The Judge
  • Grief mostly requires reassurance from friends and counseling by family physician with occasional small dose of anxiolytic medication.
  • Because we're frightfully busy here at the office, all I can give you now is reassurance that the lady and I are okay, a little bruised and sore, but okay.
  • And councillors are demanding reassurances that correct procedures were followed.
  • That he continued to say nothing, not a word of reassurance, appalled even him. A Happy Marriage
  • My neighbour has a two-year old who spent 6 months in hospital as a baby, and still shrinks from the noise of other babies' distress, needing comfort and reassurance from mum.
  • Help and reassurance will reduce the anxiety that's pushing employees towards the door. Times, Sunday Times
  • If anyone out there has a magic wand recommendation for pain-free de-boobing of a toddler (or else reassurance that I am not alone in the practice of nursing someone old enough to attempt to stand on her head while doing it) - Barren Mare
  • Institutional investors are understood to be seeking reassurances that companies will take on board their concerns.
  • There is often little creative scope, frustration is common, and regular praise and reassurance are essential.
  • The scream, and the voices that answered with soothing reassurances, came from down the hall.
  • The very sight of her roused such fond, nervous emotions and reassurance in him that he himself could hardly make sense of them.
  • It has given us a degree of visibility to the public and given reassurance to the passengers and the company itself.
  • These were the adults who constantly hankered for more reassurance from their romantic partners. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
  • As patients with AST appear to do better than conventional melanoma after similar treatment, we are now able to provide some reassurance to concerned parents and loved ones about the implications of the diagnosis," says lead study author Mathew Ludgate, MBChB, FRACP, assistant professor in the U-M Multidisciplinary Melanoma Program. Health News from Medical News Today
  • Reassurance has been offered in the form of one of those omnibus words which politicians use as an alternative to thought and in the hope that they can construct a careless consensus around a policy which they dare not precisely define.
  • Under such circumstances, the rural population needs the reassurance of a fully staffed and professional police force, not a half-baked proposal to use the retired.
  • First, there is the reassurance of what 'softs' so plainly are not. Times, Sunday Times
  • His anxious relatives are desperate for reassurance that he is safe.
  • He needs to provide reassurance round the clock. The Sun
  • Was the press snookered by all this official reassurance, and maybe is just now waking up to reality?
  • Minor corrective surgery can help and some understanding reassurance could help your wife too. The Sun
  • Ultimately, he is surprisingly reminiscent of the incurable sentimentalist, forever seeking comfort and reassurance for his damaged inner child.
  • Thousands of activists were in jails across the country and, while they were colder and less comfortable than their deposed leader, they had the reassurance of numbers. Times, Sunday Times

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