In reality, as at airport self-check-in stations, swarms of humans are on hand to assist (though, over all, there are significantly fewer employees than at a big W.F).
"The long-term outcome with ventricular assist devices, though better than medical therapies, is still not good," said Dr. Sidney C. Smith Jr., director of the University of North Carolina's heart center and chief science officer of the American Heart Association.
"I'll take an assist, though," Weatherford said, smiling.
This will not make up much of the £10-billion gap between the endowments of Harvard and Cambridge, the richest universities in America and Britain, and is unlikely to inspire British alumni to become as munificent as America's.When called upon to assist other causes, though, Britons are generous: they come near the top of philanthropic league tables (see chart).
We don't, for example, have "medication-assisted" treatment for any other disease: We don't call antidepressant therapy using Prozac "Prozac-assisted treatment," nor do we call diabetes care with insulin "insulin assisted treatment"—even though in both cases, as with addiction, behavioral changes are usually also important to recovery.
C.I.A. officials supported the program to assist Iraq, though they were not involved.
Dr. Sri was pleased to assist them, though there was not always much for her to do.
Ronaldo celebrated the assist as though he had scored himself and there is little doubt that his narcissistic streak makes some people view him as the pantomime baddie.
Perisic has been particularly impressive – with two goals and one assist – even though more attention has been focused on the enviable midfield pairing of Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic.
The city agreed to assist, even though there was a chance it would not receive reimbursement because Mr. Kasich had not requested federal aid.
Google doesn't directly assist developers, though it will answer frequently asked questions on its Android site.
