Word: asserting
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Many South American unions are against the free-trade area. And Brazil, the biggest economy in Latin America, worries about its inefficient, state-protected industries. Brazil wants to assert itself as the Latin economic and political leader through Mercosur, its customs union with Argentina, Chile and other neighbors, and it will be the region's toughest negotiator...
...Like his forgetfulness, the barren landscape, which inhabits and nurtures no one or thing, is the telltale backdrop for the emotional and psychological journey that the two take. It is in this scenic nothingness and nakedness that Lena, a woman battered and dominated by her incapacitated husband, learns to assert her ownership of herself. Boesman is a man frustrated by his inability to be free, crushed by the weight of apartheid. Eventually, after much personal loss, he even uses his fists against Lena's body to ease his own heartache; it is the only way he can express his anger...
...Steve Moore stepped his game up tonight," Mazzoleni said. "He sensed the need for him to play and assert himself, and he made a major difference tonight that was visible to everyone in the building...
...Steve Moore stepped his game up tonight," Mazzoleni said. "He sensed the need for him to play and assert himself, and he made a major difference tonight that was visible to everyone in the building...
...Friday, an op-ed piece was being drafted for the New York Times under Clinton's byline. In it, he would not come up with the apology some party elders had been begging for. However, he would accept full responsibility for the Rich pardon and frustratedly, angrily, defiantly assert it was one with which he was comfortable...