Word: assertion
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...like unionizing: people who can't assert their individual rights can assert them in a group? And women who only follow the traditional path have no protection when men go off and leave them, and then they have no career...
...teams play completely different styles of field hockey, and Caples said that Harvard must assert its style in order to be successful...
...police assert that these cases are honest mistakes, and that it is all part...
...progress, not stalemate, that prompted the rejectionists to assert themselves. In the sixth round of bilateral negotiations, which took place in Washington and ended late last month, the Israelis and Palestinians at last got down to discussing how to create some degree of autonomy in the occupied territories. Hard-liners fear that if the Palestinians agree to limited self- rule, even as a temporary measure, the world will forget their cause and they will never achieve their ambition of creating a Palestinian state. "We got the message -- Watch out, something is going to happen -- so we'd better get seriously...
...date on Saturday night, why not tell it? Because to do so is immoral and wrong, runs the standard, timeworn answer. But this stricture has never cut as much ice with potential liars as moralists would wish. The vast majority of criminal defendants assert their innocence, no matter what the evidence against them. Watergate was a baroque pageant of major players and spear carriers trying to lie themselves out of jeopardy...