"The minister has assured me that she did not make the remarks attributed to her," Mr. Schröder wrote to Mr. Bush.

The foreign minister assured the world, "Normalcy has now returned to Myanmar."

'You're an emotional cripple,' one rosy-cheeked and usually phlegmatic minister had assured him, eyes icing over with disgust.

After all, his ministers assured him, had not Marmont himself sent a report to His Majesty just the previous night assuring him all was under control?

After the two-hour meeting, Mr. Blair's spokesman said the prime minister had assured General Musharraf that the leaked document did not represent official British policy.

The prime minister assured his cabinet on Sunday that he would submit for its approval any plan for unilateral steps in the West Bank and Gaza.

Any prime minister taking office assures the people that he will keep the nation on the course outlined by God.

The ministers all assured him that he should stay.

"The Russian foreign minister assured her this cooperation would be forthcoming."

In separate meetings today, the president and prime minister assured the pope that India is a secular state that respects all religious minorities.