Word: asserting
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...Lewis says he would take out his copy of the 1977 agreement to remind officials of their place when Radcliffe tried to assert itself in undergraduate affairs. And by the end of its time as a college, Radcliffe wasn't doing anything a college does--it didn't offer classes, discipline or even feed students...
...Although Demon executives promptly removed the feature after learning of the letter, they said they have not yet decided whether to remain in compliance--or to restore what they term "a parody" and begin a legal battle to assert their right to publish...
...midst of a lemur band--grumpy papa, adoring mom, frisky siblings. His idyllic upbringing is interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...
...them, the mothers are in a significantly stronger position than the Promise Keepers "dads" of 1996. They too had hundreds of thousands of marchers, but they made the critical error of getting "sad" instead of "mad." The dads wept openly, hugged each other in stadiums, and then tried to assert their patriarchal authority. Not too effective. The moms have effectively channeled their anger towards achieving specific goals. They are bonded by a single purpose, not an nebulous concept...
This Saturday's game, however, was merely an opportunity for the already-crowned Ivy champion Crimson to assert its dominance over the upset-minded defending champions...