Word: asserting
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Against the Black Bears’ second-ranked team defense in the Hockey East conference, Moore will have to assert his presence early and often...
...Chinese citizens trying to get at local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation and police matters are decided. And although county councils are technically elected, the slates are carefully prepared and "the Communist Party almost always finds a way to assert control over them," says Ding Xueliang, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology who researches local governments...
...seventh year of existence, it seems that the CDT can look ahead to an even brighter future and perhaps continue to assert itself on the national stage. With an abundance of new talent, the hiring of a professional choreographer, and increased visibility on campus, the CDT is looking to take its spirit and savvy to new heights...
Downie and Kaiser introduce a further, personal bias into the book when they assert the superiority of newspapers to other forms of mass media. They neglect to any personal responsbility for the state of journalism in the 1990s, attributing its demise to a lack of funding and a redirection towards entertainment and opinion. There is some discussion of what exactly constitutes good journalism—including an interesting distinction between journalism that is “objective,” which is impossible, and“fair”—but the authors rely too much on anecdotes...
...clash of temperament and artistic style, a dream of artistic brotherhood soured by jealousy and the desire to assert dominance. That is the subtext of a major exhibition opening in Amsterdam this month tracing the relationship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, two of the 19th century's greatest painters. The nine weeks the two men spent together in southern France in 1888 culminated in one of the most dramatic events in the history of modern art: Van Gogh slicing off a piece of his ear after a quarrel with Gauguin...