Salmond hit him with well-aimed jabs After two weeks of floundering in response, Better Together eventually ended the crisis by asserting that Scottish ministers had complete autonomy over NHS policy and spending in Scotland.
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It works like this: if you worry that you might be accused of an -ism, get your defence in first by asserting that the accuser is an envoy of an ivory tower elite and you are merely a tribune of the people.
I've overheard conversations at academic gatherings in which female colleagues have been described as "power-dressing" – coded language used to accuse a woman of asserting herself in overly-ambitious ways.
Kabulwarnamyo seems to be an exemplar of a remote community asserting its determination to educate its young, despite the dictates of government, and of securing a future through astute, job-creating land management and cultural protection.
Herman Cain: the one-time front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination sputtered into the national conversation just this week, asserting the accusations of sexual harassment that sealed the end of his campaign were the work of "a force bigger than right": the Devil.
All of which is further evidence for the wisdom in that line from Hamlet about the lady protesting too much: strenuously asserting something is often a sign that, really, you doubt it, or believe the opposite.
Sarah Palin fired another shot in her unlikely war of words with the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) on Monday, accusing it of hypocrisy and asserting that liberals feel no compunction about attacking even special-needs children and puppy trainers.
To use mob rule and violence as way of asserting people's will is compromising the rule of law.
If you come across a BBC story merely asserting that petrol has soared to a "new record level" or hear a politician left unchallenged when making a claim that more money than ever is being spent on, say the NHS, you should consider asking for your licence money back.
In a courtroom inside Cairo's Tora Prison on Thursday, defence lawyer Khaled Abu Bakr refuted each of the charges against Fahmy, asserting there was no evidence of any connection between him and with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned and declared a terrorist organisation after the military removed president Mohamed Morsi from power in 2013.
