For a year and a half, these activists have engaged in a standoff with Russian authorities as they have asserted their right to free assembly — demonstrating, essentially, for the right to demonstrate.
China claims that a group of more than 100 ethnic Uighur refugees who were recently repatriated back to the country from Thailand planned "to join jihad" in the Middle East, and did not flee because of political, social, and economic repression as they have asserted.
In Asbury Park, by contrast, developers trying to resurrect the dilapidated beachfront as a community have asserted that they must wait until residents move into planned condos and a local "personality" emerges to know what sort of retailing is appropriate.
There was no sudden late clustering, as some have asserted.
The lockout that ended last weekend was not, as some have asserted, a mere power play by the owners.
And, as I have asserted a number of times on these pages, geology runs as surely under the skin of every gardener as every garden.
But the N.S.A.'s ability to intercept the recent discussions about plots seems to indicate that American spy agencies have not been hindered as much as some have asserted.
It is also likely, however, that the much-maligned IMF-supported programmes in Mexico, Asia and elsewhere in the 1990s were not nearly so incompetently designed as some have asserted.
Equally likely is that Mr. Ford understands how, after decades of feminism, men are now accustomed to playing the role of the sex object, with all its attendant passivity, just as women have asserted their right to a forthright gaze.
Aides said Mr. Obama's recent remarks on the wars reflected not a shift in his positions, as critics have asserted, but rather an attempt to present a comprehensive approach to far-flung national security challenges with limited forces.
The home, along with his others, is owned through his companies, LLCs, and estate trusts, not rented out like a tawdry porno shoot, as many have asserted online.
