Word: reassertions
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There were a few times that Radcliffe was able to cut into the Tiger lead by a seat or two, but the Princeton crew was always quick to reassert itself and take back what was lost...
...administration's planned missile-defense shield, thereby maintaining the deterrent capability of Moscow's own strategic arsenal. The arrest late last year of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of the massive Yukos oil company, was interpreted by some as a sign that the former KGB colonel-turned-President even planned to reassert state control over the economy...
...House, one can be sure that Taiwan—officially, the Republic of China (ROC)—and the PRC’s efforts to maintain their stranglehold over its people, will be at the top of Wen’s agenda. The premier plans to once again reassert the PRC’s right to use military force as a means to bludgeon Taiwan’s aspirations of sovereignty...
...daily dose of ambushes and audacious and high profile guerrilla and terror strikes, and upward of 60 coalition troops killed within the past two weeks alone. No military force is going to absorb upward of 30 attacks a day week after week without hitting back hard in order to reassert its deterrent capability. The problem facing U.S. troops in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle, however, is that the enemy is largely invisible, and unless the civilian population is willing to blow the whistle, he's notoriously hard to find. (Just ask the Israelis. Or the Russians who served in Afghanistan...
...plans to follow through on security, reconstruction and nation-building challenges related to its war on terrorism. Such rhetoric was necessary not only to provide credibility to the request, but also to shore up the administration’s declining fortunes both in Iraq and the U.S., and to reassert its aggressive, hegemonic national security strategy abroad...