That kind of talk might have been necessary to assure support for stimulus, but it certainly hurt confidence.
Mr. Topolanek's coalition government does not have enough seats to assure support for the plans and may need opposition votes.
It's a mutually assured destruction, or as 42 puts it, a mutually assured support.
The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council NRCC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.
Among the ranks of the Protestant laity, the hymnody and the catechetical instruction of the Protestant churches assured continuing support for the orthodox dogma.
But in villages on the front line of what is all but the latest Balkan war, there is a palpable sense that things are on a knife-edge, with fighting as likely to spread as to die down.At the first set-piece ministerial meeting between the European Union and NATO, Macedonia's government was assured of support for its statehood and promised that no one expected it to treat with Albanian gunmen.
assured broad support for the bill, called the USA Freedom Act.
Remnant withdrew his motion, allowing the Commission to carry out its work assured of support for its principles.
North Waziristan tribal elders assured their support for Operation Zarb-e-Azb, according to a statement released by ISPR director-general Major General Asim Bajwa.
Bush administration officials said they were optimistic that high-level envoys from Arab countries would attend the Annapolis conference, including Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, whose presence is seen as critical to assuring Arab support for the new peace initiative.
