Word: asserting
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...understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as "a cataclysmic fight to the death" over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is "going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation...
...Senior and mid-level officers - all of whom either fought in Iraq or were involved in operations there, and none of whom were willing to be identified by name - are beginning to assert privately that Abizaid and other top generals must inevitably share responsibility for the setbacks in Iraq. Many of those officers have lost men on the battlefield in Iraq and saw their requests for more troops go unheeded. Others worked in positions where they saw the planning for Iraq or the execution of the war go wrong. "Iraq will go down as the greatest military and strategic blunder...
...Rhythms show in 2005 that generated controversy for being what some students and a campus group called “heteronormative.” “Much of her discussion centered on how ‘women should train our men’ and how women needed to assert themselves in relationships with men,” Katherine E. Smith ’10, public relations chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), wrote in an e-mail. “We find it troubling that after the controversy following her last visit...
...when the religiously motivated assert themselves politically to achieve these aims, liberals get nervous. Those of us in public office may try to avoid the conversation about religious values altogether, fearful of offending anyone and claiming that - regardless of our personal beliefs - constitutional principles tie our hands on issues like abortion or school prayer. Such strategies of avoidance may work for progressives when the opponent is Alan Keyes. But over the long haul, I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people, and so avoid joining...
...claim that Hamas was reacting to Israel’s “kidnapping” of two Palestinians, these men were in the process of trying to execute an attack against Israel, according to the BBC article he cites as his source. Chronologically, it is impossible to assert that Hamas captured Shalit (June 25) in retaliation for Israel’s arrest of Hamas members (June 24). The Hamas kidnapping required careful planning and was conceived of at least several weeks in advance as it took a long time to dig almost a kilometer-long tunnel under the border...