Word: reassertive
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...called for institutional review boards (IRBs), which approve and oversee clinical research at hospitals and medical schools, and others involved in medical studies to “reassert the critical role of ethical standards...
Married life also took her to New York City, where her husband was studying to be a doctor and where she began to reassert her the leadership she had once employed to plan the neighborhood plays...
Chou argues that straight white men, forced into the cultural shadows by the late 20th-century obsession with diversity, are finally able to reassert their identities by reading Maxim and watching programs like Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “They can overthrow political correctness and politeness and be proud of being a man again,” she says. But some Maxim readers disagree, arguing that there is nothing new going on here. “Man has always been about looking at hot chicks and power tools...
Chou argues that straight white men, forced into the cultural shadows by the late 20th-century obsession with diversity, are finally able to reassert their identities by reading Maxim and watching programs like Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “They can overthrow political correctness and politeness and be proud of being a man again,” she says. But some Maxim readers disagree, arguing that there is nothing new going on here. “Man has always been about looking at hot chicks and power tools...
...politics have warned of for months - that the aging leader's political authority has waned over the course of the current intifada to the point that he is no longer able to impose his will on the Palestinian street. Or, he is unable to find the political will to reassert his authority against the tide of Palestinian public opinion. Either way, the upshot is the same...