Word: assertively
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...crammed into the southern holy city in an emotional outpouring not only of spiritual fervor, but also communal pride and identity. Comprising 60 percent of Iraqis, they had long been banned from performing the ritual, and their celebration at Kerbala marked a conscious effort - encouraged by their clergy - to assert their determination to claim for the first time a say in Iraq's future commensurate with their number. It was an impressive end to two weeks of organizing in which local imams around the country, acting on orders from the central religious authority at Najaf, moved to fill the power...
...another front, a bevy of women’s clubs have begun to assert their presence on the social scene, some presenting themselves as community-building alternatives to the male clubs, and others as their female counterparts. They stress the benefits of single-sex solidarity when it comes to navigating life at and post-Harvard. The Seneca, named for the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, says its mission for women’s life at Harvard extends beyond partying. The group’s website says that the money and support that final clubs have gives men an opportunity that women...
...China are unlikely to discontinue aid provisions (official and unofficial) that prop up the faltering North Korean economy, since they both hope to avoid an influx of refugees from a collapsed neighboring regime. Because of this support, their influence on Kim is strong, but they will need to forcefully assert their opposition to his nuclear program and advocate its immediate and unequivocal dismantling with extensive verification by international inspectors...
Anti-choice proponents commonly assert that being pro-choice means being pro-abortion. Incongruously, by standing in the way of increased access to EC, anti-choice groups are essentially forcing women to seek abortions that could have been avoided. Making EC pills known and easily available takes us one step closer to a fundamental goal of the pro-choice movement as articulated by President Clinton: keeping abortions “safe, legal, and rare...
...think that women or men who are walking to class should not be subjected to a penis,” Keel said. “It was a structure put up to assert male dominance...