He called upon Americans to believe passionately in his programs, and if they did, he assured us, "We will rebuild, we will recover," and the U.S. "will emerge stronger than before".
Ghannouchi was a factotum of the old regime, and even if he was, as he assured the public, only an interim leader, the Casbah protesters regarded the Tunisian revolution as woefully incomplete.
"If they were fascist," he assured me with the paternal cadence of a government bureaucrat, "there would be enough writers here who would flag it right away and expose it to the rest of the country".
If any friends needed mortgages, he assured them that they would be well treated, and directed them to the loan program known inside Countrywide as Friends of Angelo.
But, he assured me, if you put back enough growth hormone to reach the body's optimal level — say, at age 30 to 35 — you can halt the advance of aging and even reverse it.
"What really complements the new stuff is the old stuff," he assured, as if trying to sneak someone into an exclusive club who was not on the guest list.
He assured us that, if we cooperated, we would be able to speak to Imran later.
"He assured us that, if he was not here to guide us, we would never find it," Kruse said.
Graham, meanwhile, said he is willing to go along with the skinny repeal — but only if he is assured that a plan he has offered would be reconsidered.
He said he would meet the North Korean leader only if he was assured that their meeting could produce progress in helping end North Korea's nuclear weapons programs.
