Word: reasserting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli government's response to such incidents has been almost nonexistant. Its most usual retort is to reassert that the Israeli armed forces have full authority for the security of the region. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on his recent visit to Harvard, reiterated that Palestinians cannot be trusted with issues of security and that Israel should be responsible for the protection of Israelis as well as Palestinians...
...offer Palestinians our deepest condolences, we can only reassert that Israel is committed to overcoming such extremists. Any weakening of the peace process because of this tragedy would only capitulate to the aims of such terror. --Martin Lebwohl '96 Mayer Bick '95 Co-Chairs Harvards Students for Israel
...prospects for civil order dim, Aideed and the other warlords will reassert themselves, likely causing at least a partial return to preintervention conditions. The terror will return for the Somali people; the horror will return to our TV sets. Then we will have to choose: either turn a cold shoulder, or send back our troops...
...Gerry seems a little more engaged in family life and Ellie is actually writing something. But we can be pretty certain that distraction will reassert itself, probably sooner rather than later. Anyway, it would betray the film's spirit if everyone suddenly started tidying things up for a thumping conclusion. The theaters are full of such endings anyway. What's always in short supply are movies that have something to do with life as most of us actually experience it. Bad Behaviour briefly, smartly fills that...
...band's new CD, their fourth full-length album, will not shock old devotees or disappoint initiates. The musicians -- singer-guitarists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty -- don't stake out any new territory, but rather reassert claims to their favorite ideological and musical stomping grounds. The song Smallpox Champion is about invading whites purposely infecting Indians: "Give natives some blankets warm like the grave." 23 Beats Off addresses today's problems, comparing the private war of "a household name with HIV" to a military battle. The track stretches on for seven minutes, collapsing...