Word: asserting
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...Chen's troubles have prompted his critics, particularly those on the mainland, to assert that a freewheeling, democratic system is not suitable for Taiwan, and, by extension, for China, Hong Kong and Macau. To be sure, his administration has not distinguished itself, and frequent fisticuffs in the legislature?including the recent image of a legislator chewing the papers of a rival?do not convey a positive image of the island's political process...
...Battle of the Bishops" [May 15], on China's unauthorized ordination of two Roman Catholic bishops: China is flouting ancient church law to assert its authority over all areas of the religious as well as political life of its population. The decision by Beijing to appoint two bishops of its own appears to be a cynical attempt to increase the schism between the roughly 4 million Chinese Catholics who worship through the state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the 8 million Chinese Catholics loyal to the Vatican. That is the last thing the Catholic Church needs as it tries...
...saying that a movie can reasonably be expected to come to a halt while Keillor tells one of his stories. But this weightless film needs to have found some equivalent to them , and there were times in A Prairie Home Companion when I wanted the old Altman to assert himself, to let some mumbling and zooming happen, if only to obscure the paucity (and desperation) of Keillor's thin and casual plotting, to make poignantly manifest some of the sadness and confusion of people trying to do a live radio show while knowing that it is to be the last...
Since then, however, the Overseers’ attempts to assert themselves forcefully in Harvard politics have often faltered, particularly after the Second World...
...encouraged members of the Harvard College Curricular Review to adopt the same interdisciplinary approach to introductory undergraduate courses. It was the president’s outspokenness that spurred even the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which for the past year has defined itself in opposition to Summers, to assert itself in ways that will have a lasting influence on FAS-Mass. Hall power relations. At his last study break with undergraduates on May 14, Summers’ parting words reflected his style—and his mandate—as a University president...