Word: asserting
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...controlled it, which is one reason voters expelled them from power in 2006. And these days, it's usually Democrats who call for a humbler foreign policy. Paul's leave-us-alone libertarianism hasn't fit in with a party anxious to read our e-mail, improve our values, assert American power abroad and subsidize friendly industries at home. The party's recent mix of "national greatness" neoconservatives, evangelical theoconservatives and K Street careerists has had many goals, but leaving people alone hasn't been one of them. That's why Paul was the one getting booed at G.O.P. debates...
...students could submit their feedback online, and the Q Guide could even be expanded to show which professors respond well to student feedback. While we certainly understand the criticisms of those who fear that this change would simply add to the already cumbersome bureaucracy at University Hall, we firmly assert that this new program would have a beneficial impact on the College as a whole. Enforcing midterm evaluations and grading would ultimately help, not hinder, Harvard’s oft-bemoaned pedagogy...
...feed from Martin five minutes in, cutting the Wildcat lead to single digits at 11-2. But New Hampshire responded just one minute later on an unassisted shot from attacker Moira Talbot.Back and forth scoring continued until the end of the match.“[The Wildcats] asserted their game on us, and we weren’t able to push back and assert our game on them,” Bobzin said.New Hampshire netminder Ashley Milley, the reigning America East Conference Defensive Player of the week, contained Harvard throughout the afternoon with six saves in 60 minutes of play...
Otherwise, the conciliatory pose of "Eirene" might be replaced by increasing strain in the relationships between museums and foreign governments, as museums strive to maintain the status of their antiquities collections and governments assert claims to works that they believe to rightfully be theirs...
...saying you're more qualified than she is? What I'm saying is that she has been able to assert experience that isn't backed up by a whole host of facts other than that she's been there...