It is constantly assured, especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like.

Accordingly, women may abandon them and try to fit into institutional patterns which make no sense to them but which they are constantly assured are superior.

Would that be the same talented counterparts who, we are constantly assured, would flee these shores if they weren't paid millions?

Radio and television stations that pander to 14-year-olds, as well as advertisers that have become slaves to the disposable income of high-school freshmen, certainly contribute to the sense of entitlement of the Queen Bees, who are constantly assured by the media that they are the center of the universe.

The truth would come out: the Enclave has been infil-trated, not just by American govern-ment operatives but also by the kind of xenophobic terror-ists I've constantly assured everyone we need not fear.

She had constantly assured her of her full belief in her brother's innocence, and of her sympathy with him in his misery.

"The Chief was assured constantly, on four different occasions, by the police commissioners and the city, that his documents would be confidential," Ms. Lomax said.

Those of us who were members of the inter-parliamentary delegation were constantly assured, in many conversations, that the above assertions bore no relation to the facts.

We are constantly assured that every man is endowed with Free Will, and that he can and must exercise it where he is offered a choice between good conduct and less-good conduct.