Had he lost, they would have been free to formulate their ideas without him, while assuring skeptics that such a political program would be popular, if only it hadn't been tethered to such an erratic figure.
In remarks broadcast live from the presidential residence, Ms. Livni urged Mr. Peres to call the election without delay and assured him that she would win at the polls — an outcome that is by no means certain, with recent opinion surveys pointing to a likely victory for Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the right-wing opposition party, Likud.
Meanwhile privacy advocates are urging caution, saying that more federal monitoring will encroach upon civil liberties without assuring public safety.
We cannot send brave UN staff – 25 of whom died this year – around the world without assuring their security.
Without assuring people, and continuing to assure them we might find people not being able to express their opinion and that is a disaster for everyone".
"The Russians went public with this without assuring adequate sensitivities to Iran's internal dynamics, in order to perhaps score a point and boost their prestige," Mr. Behrooz said.
The Byzantine emperor John V Palaeologus tried to mobilize European assistance by uniting the churches of Constantinople and Rome, but that effort only further divided Byzantium without assuring any concrete help from the West.
Without government premiums, assuring that insurers will not underprice their product -- confident that the penalty will not be failure but a bigger check from Uncle Sam -- may be an issue.
Cooper notes that the ambiguity of the article allowed landholding mulattoes to hope that these civil rights applied to them "without assuring them any benefit" (SFHR, 72).
EBM advocates try to ameliorate the latter problem by declaring that patients' values ought to be incorporated into clinical decisions, but without assuring that we know how to do this.
