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Examples
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By now, getting a free-trade agreement with the US or Europe is no longer seen as a sure-shot ticket to faster development.
Otaviano Canuto: The Day After Tomorrow: Growth Switchover Otaviano Canuto 2010
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Anyhow, we are far from having habit-breaking, sure-shot instruments to alter social behavior.
Marcelo Giugale: Development and the New Power of Entertainment Education Marcelo Giugale 2011
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Though the Clippers' Blake Griffin who missed all of last season with a knee injury looks to be the sure-shot Rookie of the Year, Mr. Fields seems destined to become the first second-round pick to make the league's All-Rookie team since Golden State's Marc Jackson a decade ago.
He's Quietly Taken the NBA by Surprise Jeff Pearlman 2011
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By now, getting a free-trade agreement with the US or Europe is no longer seen as a sure-shot ticket to faster development.
Otaviano Canuto: The Day After Tomorrow: Growth Switchover Otaviano Canuto 2010
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Anyhow, we are far from having habit-breaking, sure-shot instruments to alter social behavior.
Marcelo Giugale: Development and the New Power of Entertainment Education Marcelo Giugale 2011
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However, it will be some time though before crowdfunding, which usually takes place through the Internet, evolves into a reliable, sure-shot method of fund-raising in India.
Crowdfunding Yet To Start Up Deepti Chaudhary 2011
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The lights go out, the crowd rises to its feet, and immediately the area is illuminated by the LCD screens on sure-shot cameras, palm-size video recorders, and cell phones casting a glowing patchwork of blue squares and rectangles from floor to roof.
Rampage 2008
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The lights go out, the crowd rises to its feet, and immediately the area is illuminated by the LCD screens on sure-shot cameras, palm-size video recorders, and cell phones casting a glowing patchwork of blue squares and rectangles from floor to roof.
Rampage 2008
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Also during the day, Mirjana Lucic, once a sure-shot junior and now a 28-year-old longshot, continues her first U.S.
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It is concluded that there is no sure-shot formula for success.
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