In exchange, the Europeans must provide "firm guarantees on nuclear, technological and economic cooperation and firm commitments on security issues."

Any indie with the cash to pay for a properly released album in 2011 will want much firmer guarantees than edgy niche albums, I'm afraid.

And he turned, with no more insistence than that, and no firmer guarantee, and walked away towards his own house, leaving Gus staring after him.

Some protesters say firm guarantees of repair of any environmental damage and major financing for new cultural facilities would satisfy most complaints.

The Communists presumably will use these votes to bargain for firmer guarantees.

But he wants firmer guarantees on the status of the Hungarian minority, in particular, group rights rather than individual rights for all Romanians.

To encourage wider voluntary testing, the Government needs to provide firmer guarantees of confidentiality and protection from discrimination.

Honestly would have rather liked his tongue in her mouth, so long as she had a firm guarantee it would stop there.

It is argued that firmer guarantees and ring-fencing of funds are needed.

Most Israelis consider control of the West Bank a strategic asset to be bargained away only for the firmest guarantees against a new military threat.