Word: asserting
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...military is so bureaucratized now. It's hard for a guy to assert that kind of will. He's going to end up a major on a base in New Mexico; he's not going to be a Colin Powell...
...some wonder whether Ban has the steel to play a leading role on the international stage. "This will be the first time he's ever been his own boss," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based director of the International Crisis Group's North East Asia Project. "Can he really assert himself and stand up to governments that act contrary to the U.N.?" His allies say that it's a mistake to assume that Ban is as diffident as he might sometimes appear. "It's a typical Oriental style," says Yoon Young Kwan, Ban's predecessor as South Korean Foreign Minister...
...role on the international stage--a question that's been sharpened by North Korea's latest provocation. "This will be the first time he's ever been his own boss," says Peter Beck, the Seoul-based director of the International Crisis Group's Northeast Asia project. "Can he really assert himself and stand up to governments that act contrary to the U.N.?" His allies say that it's a mistake to assume that Ban is as diffident as he might sometimes appear. "It's a typical Oriental style," says Yoon Young Kwan, Ban's predecessor as South Korean Foreign Minister...
...course, an essentially unstoppable and hydra-headed power, which is probably why it makes the fundamentalists so crazy. It is, believe me, often as stupid and vulgar to me as it is to them. But it is also full of vitality and it is eventually bound to assert, for at least some of their children, the seductiveness of the forbidden. Lindsay Lohan is not going to save them. But some of them, someday are going to get hold of Huckleberry Finn or Catcher in the Rye - one of those books mom and pop are trying to get banned from...
Reactions like that of Cross are widespread. Even though athletic department higher-ups assert that the plan to renovate the MAC has been under way for a long time, it seems that at no point was any effort made to reassure those varsity athletes whose teams make their homes on the upper floors of the building...