"We want to assure the public that the ball will drop in 1993."

"But testing is really the way we assure the public of water quality," she said.

The league wants to assure the public that everything - everybody - is under control.

The protest came just a few hours after federal and state security officials appeared at the plant to assure the public of its safety.

The Health Department assured the public that their program was indeed safe.

Nor did it assure the public that the process had worked fairly, guided by the law.

But they sought to assure the public that the water supply was safe.

Police are assuring the public that there is no looting problem.

Despite this administrators assure the public that flights will continue as normal.

When the question did come up, scientists generally assured the public that there was no danger to health.