Its security guard assured me I wouldn't be able to take a burrito inside.
Now separated from the convent's orchard by a wall, its little vegetable plot grows carrots, tomatoes, onions and cabbages that, the guard assured me, the gardener is happy to share with anyone who asks.
Local people who tried to get inside the hospital to help rescue patients said they were turned away by security guards who assured them it was only a small kitchen fire.
After a former detainee said he had seen Bashir in Sednaya prison, more than 100 miles away, Bashir's elderly mother began making monthly visits, leaving clothes and money at the gates for guards who assured her he would receive them.
"We were well prepared, been getting up early in the morning for this early game," JaJuan Smith, Tennessee's limber guard, later assured reporters who wondered out loud if Tennessee had been somnambulating.
A guard told him to stand back; the mothers assured the guard the boy knew he mustn't touch any paintings.
Four "spotters" – dressed like those nice volunteer Games Makers but in fact highly experienced trampoline coaches, the crowd were assured – stood guard at each corner of the bed, ready to intercept a competitor if she started falling towards them in a tangle of limbs and glitter and redirect her, ideally, towards something bouncy.
While the Flickr revamp generated a lot of buzz, and might have caught its competitors off guard, you can be assured that the other players are looking at how they can rework their offerings to match – or better – what Yahoo! has offered its users.
A day after the Guardian and Daily Telegraph reported seeing 23 Russian armoured personnel carriers, supported by fuel trucks and other military logistics vehicles, crossing into Ukrainian territory, the FSB said there was a detachment in the area of border guards set up to assure safety and "prevent the infiltration of armed people on the territory of the Russian federation".
He checked with security guards at his university, who assured him it was not true, so he decided not to go because there was still fighting in the surrounding neighborhood.
