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  • As Justice Ginsburg explains in her dissenting opinion, But the rule also serves other important purposes: It ‘enabl[es] the judiciary to avoid the taint of partnership in official lawlessness,’ and it ‘assur[es] the people—all potential victims of unlawful government conduct—that the government would not profit from its lawless behavior, thus minimizing the risk of seriously undermining popular trust in government.’

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • When he was younger he might have imagined a circus as joyous and possibly totally forbidden, assur, a diversion of the Gentiles, that took Jews away from Torah study, which in his case would have made it even more adventurous.

    The Last Lion Brittany Newmark 2011

  • When he was younger he might have imagined a circus as joyous and possibly totally forbidden, assur, a diversion of the Gentiles, that took Jews away from Torah study, which in his case would have made it even more adventurous.

    The Last Lion Brittany Newmark 2011

  • Specifically, the brief noted, the Bowers opinion incorrectly read the Court's previous privacy rulings as limited to decisions regarding pregnancy, thereby ignoring those cases that "assur [ed] a right of bodily integrity outside of pregnancy."

    'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

  • At the moment the air is good and the temperature comfortable, but there is no assur - ance that they will remain so.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • I assur u, it sez kittehs get $500 fur landin on FreParkin.

    No, iz not gettin off unles - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • “Do you understand where I’m coming from though, how much of a chaval it is that “ultra-Orthodox” has come to be defined by clothing and potentially assur actions?”

    JPPPI Don’t Like Frum People | Jewschool 2007

  • Tell him, that I shall take it very kindly of him, if he will not think of marrying till he acquaints me with it; and can give me assur-ance, that the lady will love him as well as somebody else would have done.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Butt this verie morninge, I can assur yowe, hir ladishippe is gon with yowre spowse to Tonbrigge; and theire they are to take lodgings, or a hous; and Mr.B. is after to come to town, and settel matters to go downe to hir, where they are to liue as man and wiffe.

    Pamela 2006

  • Rehersing would be prohibited because he is preparing for something that happens after shabbes, on shabbes, which is tehnically assur prohibited.

    NYT: Shabbat Continues Through Saturday Night | Jewschool 2006

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