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Merely by making the single decision to leave, her parents assured that their daughter would get access to books.
Similarly, if we'd had this talk 30 or 40 years ago, we would have seen how the rise of nuclear weapons, and the threat of mutually assured destruction they imply, prevents a direct fight between the two superpowers.
We told her stories and assured her that we were still with her.
And they assured me that they had enough to eat in Ghana and came to the US willingly.
You see, 20th century economics assured us that if growth creates inequality, don't try to redistribute, because more growth will even things up again.
Now this project is not going to win any prizes for design, and you can rest assured that my 83-year-old mom is not training to become a professional programmer or computer scientist.
So I took the experiment out of Delhi and repeated it, this time in a city called Shivpuri in the center of India, where I was assured that nobody had ever taught anybody anything.
But my friend assured me that he wasn't Catholic, nor were most of his students, but he took his classes there every spring.
But rest assured: so are you.
I'm a psychologist, but rest assured, I will not bring it to the scrotal.
Until we live in a society where every human is assured dignity in their labor so that they can work to live well, not only work to survive, there will always be an element of those who seek the open road as a means of escape, of liberation and, of course, of rebellion.
He had friends in high places who assured him that he was of great value to the economy.
You can rest assured that you are breathing the purest air on Earth, here in the Amazon, because the plants take care of this characteristic as well.
Now, when I talked about this with Kevin Kelly, he assured me that everybody in this audience pretty much knows the details of the prisoner's dilemma, so I'm just going to go over that very, very quickly.
During the next few years, Fosbury perfected his high jump style, won the U.S. National trials, and assured his place in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.
The traditional urbanism and architecture of our cities assured identity and belonging not by separation, but by intertwining.
But rest assured, it was hard work.
We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.
But here's the thing: that vision of abundance isn't compatible with a world that still relies on a 20th-century nuclear doctrine called "mutually assured destruction."
It has to be about strategies for mutually assured prosperity or, at the very least, mutually assured survival.
She assured me that a mother's love was the strongest bond on Earth, and that she loved her children more than anything in the world, but because of her illness, she was sure that they would be better off without her.
The doctors assured us there was nothing wrong and I shouldn't worry, but I wasn't so sure.
It stands for mutually assured destruction.
Since there is no real retribution possible that would make any difference, since there are people willing to actually give up their lives in order to do a lot of damage to us, it becomes apparent that the whole notion of this mutually assured destruction would not work.
My mother and I pleaded with him to please just pull over and ask someone for directions back to the highway, and he absolutely refused, and, in fact, assured us that we were not lost, he had just always wanted to know what was over here.
My teachers assured me, they said, "Don't worry.
CA: Right, mutual assured destruction kept the Cold War relatively stable, without that, we might not be here now.
They told him of a great hero called Achilles, who, when he participated in battle, victory was assured, but when he withdrew from the battle, defeat was inevitable.
But male honor and patriotism win out in the end, as all freshly scrubbed and handsome, he rides off into the sunset on a bus with his buddies back to Iraq and a world that a few minutes before he assured everyone he could never again tolerate.
At least one of the several bozos geared up to climb K2 clearly has no idea what the real mountain actually looks like -- he has to be assured by his friend and climbing partner that he wouldn't have been brought by said partner to an ugly mountain.
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