"Despite [Tesco's] assurances, nothing had changed," Simms says.
Each encounter bore Robert's signature tilted logic, interrogations spinning nowhere, ritual assurance that nothing had actually happened.
Besides, the device offers suspects a measure of assurance that nothing terrible will happen while it's on.
European officials said they could give a complete assurance that nothing would undermine the ability of the UK government to regulate the NHS.
The book has no footnotes, photographs or appendices, just a page of acknowledgements and an assurance that nothing has been invented.
The family was relieved and grateful, both for the doctor's visit and for his assurance that nothing more could have been done.
Ivo Kamps, a University of Mississippi English professor, warned the law "will have a chilling effect on our ability to recruit students and faculty", despite the university chancellor's assurance that nothing would change.
A third agent, Rick Ojeda, who has retired, seemed to undermine Mr. Ashcroft's assurance that nothing in the documents could have helped Mr. McVeigh, saying that some of the material included "leads that should have been investigated".
He writes as if what he is giving us amounts to a tight, grand, cumulative system of ideas — something of almost mathematical rigor — but the reader will do much better to approach this book with the assurance that nothing like that actually turns out to be the case.
For conservationists, Russia's melding of nuclear power and offshore oil drilling is hardly an assurance that nothing will go wrong, in light of the blowout on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico and the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
