Word: asserting
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However, the participants assert that the transition has been natural, if a little hectic, and their faith in Ben Margo’s direction is evident. “He’s really interested in creating the piece that he wants to create,” says Zackheim of Margo’s vision. “It’s not his goal to try to please anybody...
...hostile interference out there," says a U.S. official. Philippe publicly agreed, though days later his insurgents were still armed and testing U.S. patience inside the capital and the provinces. Their tin-pot bravado was winning them support on the streets and complicating the U.S. military's efforts to assert authority in Haiti, where more than 100 people have been killed in the political violence...
Princeton’s Judson Wallace began to assert himself underneath as he finished two layups during the Tigers’ 6-0 run, putting the team up three at 47-44 with...
...human need, unsentimentally stated (and lubricated by alcohol), will out. They talk, they shyly share, they confront mortality. Most of all, they assert their humanity, which turns out to be far larger than we (or perhaps they) ever imagined it might...
...community, allegedly at the behest of Blair's powerful communications director, Alastair Campbell. The testimony to Hutton showed that top spies put it in, and believed it at the time. Hutton also condemned the BBC's haphazard investigation into Gilligan's claims. Davies and Dyke were so determined to assert the BBC's independence that they circled the wagons around Gilligan without establishing whether his work stood up - and Hutton concluded that Kelly did not say all the things Gilligan pinned on him. But having extracted a simple morality tale from Gilligan's sloppy reporting, Hutton seemed determined to exclude...