endowment assurance

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noun

a form of life insurance that provides for the payment of a specified sum directly to the policyholder at a designated date or to his beneficiary should he die before this date

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How to use endowment assurance in a sentence

To an audience destabilized by seismic changes in the culture, he brings the assurance (and the threat) that Obama et al.
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And by pronouncing other cultures and political systems “evil,” there was the assurance that America was good.
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The schools endowment grew from $114 million to $472 million.
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It was on this assurance that the FAA certified that the 787 was safe to fly again.
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Any financial institution would have a huge quality assurance team to find such bugs, but for Mark it was all up to him.
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Belief in his own value had never been thus assailed before; that he was indispensable had been an ultimate assurance.
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But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The presence of a large gold fund was an assurance of the ability to return to specie payments after the close of the war.
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All she needed was a certain amount of his society, opportunities to work for him, the assurance of his success and happiness.
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She was a woman of great intellectual endowment, with highly cultivated literary tastes.
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