Word: asserting
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...China are unlikely to discontinue aid provisions (official and unofficial) that prop up the faltering North Korean economy, since they both hope to avoid an influx of refugees from a collapsed neighboring regime. Because of this support, their influence on Kim is strong, but they will need to forcefully assert their opposition to his nuclear program and advocate its immediate and unequivocal dismantling with extensive verification by international inspectors...
Anti-choice proponents commonly assert that being pro-choice means being pro-abortion. Incongruously, by standing in the way of increased access to EC, anti-choice groups are essentially forcing women to seek abortions that could have been avoided. Making EC pills known and easily available takes us one step closer to a fundamental goal of the pro-choice movement as articulated by President Clinton: keeping abortions “safe, legal, and rare...
...think that women or men who are walking to class should not be subjected to a penis,” Keel said. “It was a structure put up to assert male dominance...
...Holley Breakthrough, celebrates his firm, best known for selling electricity meters, as "the model of the Made-in-China era." But the greatest awe is for Wang's acquisition of foreign companies, especially public ones, a strategy with great symbolic value in an era in which China wants to assert itself as a global investor, not just an exporter...
...proposed reconciliation of this constitutional tension is to note the extraordinary qualifications of this candidate and to urge the Senate to confirm Mr. Estrada; actually, all the Democrats have to do is to allow the nomination to come to a vote. The Senate should assert its constitutional power against presidential nominations for judicial office, and arguably even with a filibuster, when the nominee does not possess the high qualifications for federal judicial office. Mr. Estrada’s record in the Solicitor General’s Office suggests that he is no ideologue. When high ability and good character...