This was the final validation from colleagues and mentors who had long assured me that I would have a bright future as a sociologist.
For example, in one March 2001 article, The Times reported comments by pharmacists who stated that sales representatives for Purdue Pharma had long assured them that OxyContin would not cause abuse or addiction.
The royalists' fanatical devotion to the king has long assured them of an unquestionable claim to represent the country.
So dominant had Lyon been in the early exchanges - when Juninho had been at his most influential and Sidney Govou, Luyindula and Florent Malouda at their most pesky - that the French champions' progress into the knockout stage for the first time since 2001 should have been long assured.
Shirley Collins's status as one of the great figures of the English folk revival has long been assured, and the influence of her great 1960s and 1970s albums has spread down the years.
* 'PABLO CASALS -- ARTIST OF CasalsENCE'sCastatus stasus as a 20th-century musical icon has long been assured, but you don't often find cogent attempts to explain exactly why he was so important.
Tickets: $20 $155 for students and 65+.  ALLAN KOZINN * 'PABLO CASALS  ARTIST OF CasalsENCE'sCastatus stasus as a 20th-century musical icon has long been assured, but you don't often find cogent attempts to explain exactly why he was so important.
I made a television film in Manhattan one winter, and the scarf-wrapped, woolly-hatted, gloved and earmuffed island seemed then more old-fashioned than ever -- the Smile Test had long before assured me that New Yorkers are nicest in the snow.
Program officials have long said that a minimum five-year lease is needed to assure a long-term commitment.
Koch assured me that he had long ago abandoned such improbable notions.
