Word: assertively
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...same Hollywood bigs who will be feting and writing checks to the Democrats all week at the convention in Los Angeles. And Wednesday night, he'll exercise his right to free expression on television - the very medium that he's spent a good part of his career trying to assert creeping government control over...
March for Economic Human Rights (Monday, July 31): Activists from throughout the country will march - permit or not, they say - to demand what they assert are their economic human rights...
...diplomatic front. It should be noted, of course, that this was a game for which Washington hadn't bothered to show up, focusing primarily on the Middle East and the forthcoming election instead. But Putin's campaign contains a message for the next U.S. leadership: Moscow plans to aggressively assert its interests on the global stage, and that will test Washington's geopolitical skills in ways the Clinton administration was mostly spared...
...full-fledged democracy, according to Washington, and yet since the election of President Vladimir Putin - whose popularity with voters was derived in no small part from sticking out his jaw in the face of Western criticism over his conduct in Chechnya - it has positioned itself ever more assertively as a competitor to Washington on the global stage. Putin is working aggressively (and not without success) to win Western European support for his opposition to Washington's national missile defense, and is making a concerted effort to restore Moscow's influence in some of the capitals that most perplex U.S. policy...
...walking, tennis, basketball, running and something called "cross-training." The sneaker industry has ingested steroids and hallucinogens, and produced astonishing effects, shoes that look like cumulus clouds, or reptiles of the Amazon basin, or tarted-up space stations. Shoes have Incredible Hulked themselves (or perhaps, Robert Crumbed themselves) to assert an out-of-perspective importance - rendering the foot (an absurd appendage anyway and best underplayed) ridiculously prominent, strange shapes elaborated by irrational patchworks of neon piping and gaudy metallic iridescences...