Assist
To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
To lend aid; to help.
To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.
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Assist Quotations
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
Margaret Thatcher
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
Nancy Pelosi
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Maimonides
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
Andrzej Wajda
In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
Lawrence Eagleburger
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Mary Astell
Assist Translations
assist in Afrikaans is help
assist in Dutch is helpen, assisteren, bijstaan
assist in Finnish is auttaa
assist in French is assister, assistez, aider, alimenter, assistent
assist in Italian is promuovere, aiutare
assist in Latin is ministro, proficio, adiuvo, succurro, adservio
assist in Norwegian is hjelpe
assist in Spanish is asistir, promover, ayudar
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