Word: reassertive
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...strong performance heartened the Crimson, two-time defending Ivy League champs. It graduated three seniors and needed to reassert its dominance over the division...
...want to reassert that the BGLTSA thinks it's definitely important to speak against violence and prejudice against transgendered people, because they are definitely part of the queer community," she said...
...separates Charlie from Sherman McCoy is his realization, on some level, of just how foolish his egotism and macho stunts are. Despite this self-knowledge, Charlie simply cannot resist defending his alpha male status in any situation. For example, having just been humiliated by his creditors, Croker decides to reassert his control by capturing a rattlesnake barehanded: "He knew that what he was about to do was foolhardy--and he knew he would do it anyway...there was no other choice but the foolhardiest possible...
...year in office, Blair helped engineer a historic peace agreement in Northern Ireland and last week managed to reassert a British presence in Middle East politics by sponsoring a high-profile negotiation in London. The British economy is booming: the pound is up, and unemployment is down. Peace and prosperity. Who could ask for anything more? But just in case someone does, there's Britain's current boom in the arts. Whether it's movies like the The Full Monty, bands like Oasis and the Spice Girls, or designers like Stella McCartney, the hottest thing going these days seems...
...flexible and forgiving, but they're not infinitely elastic. It is possible, and in the view of some people likely, that the tapes will be exposed as the quite elaborate fantasies, 20 hours' worth, of an unstable young woman. But if the tapes are true, that wobbly moralism will reassert itself, for many of those irony-drenched boomers are now parents of their own Monica Lewinskys. One of two things will follow. The public will demand that Clinton go; or, tired of watching the news with their fingers on the mute button, they will turn away not only from...