Both parties were lavish of their mutual assurances of friendship, while they cordially hated each other.
"M. Duval and myself are still exchanging mutual assurances of our lunacy."
However, the interest rapidly shown by the members of the aristocracy suggests this association did not exclusively deal with mutual assurance.
In addition to exchanging mutual assurances of peace, Cabell and Calles each pledged to investigate the incident.
Their mutual assurance lay in each keeping their part of the combination secret from the other.
These obligations would be in the form of signing of a peace treaty, in the hands of the victor, or even exchange hostages as mutual assurance in cases such as an armistice.
Withdrawing the troops would eliminate a fundamental source of mutual assurance in Israeli-Egyptian relations, and would send the wrong signal at a time of extreme volatility in the Middle East.
They parted with mutual assurances of eternal friendship.
The mutual assurances they tried to exchange in the dark and in the day passed through some refraction that made them miss the mark.
However, they kept bunched up together; in these nervous hours they needed the mutual assurance of the herd.