Word: assertion
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...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...
...other cases the Court has noted that if the government were to acquire the power to assert an official orthodoxy over its citizens, there would be blood spilled over the question of precisely whose orthodoxy would, and should, prevail. Each of us can envision some organization, or some person, that it would be "unthinkable" for the American government to allow to exist. Fortunately, the government does not have this power, and we are spared the civil war that would result from a contest as to how such awesome power should be exercised...
...first and foremost thing I would like to assert is that, like Rodney Dangerfield, the men's volleyball team gets no respect. No respect from the Athletic Department, no respect from the student body, and, up until recently, no respect from my beloved publication. What's even worse about this lack of respect is that, while no one was looking, the team has actually blossomed into something special...
...them undocumented. Last year the AFL-CIO reversed its longtime support of sanctions against employers who hire illegal immigrants and called for an amnesty that would give legal residency to millions of such aliens who are already here. It added that "courageous undocumented workers who come forward to assert their rights should not be faced with deportation...