(1) The first such interest is the importance of assuring that a biological parent-child relationship exists.
Soft-spoken but tenacious, Mr. Baucus in recent weeks successfully strong-armed several lobbying groups into muting their criticism of his legislation, part of a concerted strategy of assuring interest groups that they had his ear as long as they did not chew on it.
The assignment conveying to Hunter the whole interest of the assured, his representatives alone would have a valid claim under it, if the policy were not void in its inception.
The creation of a democratic society, built on egalitarian principles, is the only real systematic means of assuring that the interests of the entire society are not sacrificed to those of powerful elites.
From a market perspective, differences in metabolite patterns of food from different production systems are of interest in assuring the authenticity of food products marketed as organic [ 8].
This creates ethical problems of assuring that testing is in the person's best interest and raises in turn issues of autonomy, discrimination, and privacy.
The challenge of assuring the safety of the global food supply is a matter not only for public health but for private sector interests in the food industry.
And he can speak from experience about how political investments buy lucrative conflicts of interest, while assuring that outsiders to the deal cannot prove subjective intent.
Among them, he wrote, was that regulators "were not concerned with consumer acceptance" of lap-and-shoulder restraints; were convinced that the restraints would increase safety; "did not fear additional safety risks arising from use of those belts"; "had no interest in assuring a mix of devices"; and had a diminishing concern about the cost of installing the more elaborate restraints.
Even if (as seems unlikely) a scheme for administering a closed primary could not be devised in which the voter's declaration of party affiliation would not be public information, we do not think that the State's interest in assuring the privacy of this piece of information in all cases can conceivably be considered a "compelling" one.
