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On Thursday, Zimbabwe's state election commission admitted that nearly 305,000 people were turned away from voting and another 207,000 were "assisted voters" –" supposedly illiterate or infirm" – who needed help from polling officials to cast ballots.
Early reports suggest that in his testimony to a congressional committee today, General David Petraeus will claim that the Iranians assisted the Mahdi Army militia to fight the forces of Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in the recent week-long battle in Basra.
The Royal College of Nursing has opposed assisted suicide since 2004, but adopted a neutral stance yesterday after a recent consultation in which almost half (49%) of its members said they supported the policy, while two out of five (40%) said they were against it.
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This effort is assisted by US combat troops".
The sub-county's 15 schools are being assisted to create orchards and woodlots – small portions of land containing trees - to provide fruit for pupils to eat and for the school to sell.
I'm also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid-1990s and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.
Its financial position is far removed from the precarious status of residents of Benefits Street, a show which, like The Island, Gogglebox and the Educating series, has assisted the fightback.
Party members have complained about the printing of surplus ballot papers, irregularities in the voters' roll, traditional leaders "frogmarching" villagers to the polls, people feigning illiteracy to be "assisted ", voters being bussed to faraway constituencies, and the malign influence of the military.
He is again assisted by Moxie Mallahan, the town of Stained-by-the-Sea Stained-by-the-Sea Stained-by-the-Sea Stained-by-the-Seahas caused the mysterious fires in the town and what has happened to the only witness.
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He has tried numerous ploys to challenge Oregon's assisted -suicide law (including encouraging the Drug Enforcement Administration to revoke the licences of participating doctors), thus snubbing both the state, which has passed the law not once but twice, and the Supreme Court, which has explicitly left policymaking in this area to the states.
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The primary grammatical function of "assisted " is as the past participle of the verb "assist", often used to describe someone or something that has received help or support. Ludwig confirms this, showing its use in various sentence structures.
Expression frequency: Very common
