Asserting a position one doesn't actually believe.
For AWS, this is about asserting a position at the top of the cloud provider foodchain.
Finally, the general public's understanding is misdirected, although we know that command of facts is no longer a pre-requisite for asserting a position.
It seems to hover in space rather than assert a fixed position.
And while, of course, there are significant political ramifications from the president's ABC interview, I, for one, would like to focus on those who will be most affected by it: the loving gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered couples and their children who this week heard President Obama not just assert a policy position, but affirm their way of life – their very being.
The truth is the Supreme Court may have rushed too hastily to assert a stronger position in Israel's political system, frightening many on the right.
The challenge in any future disaster for UNICEF is how to assert a unique position as distinct from other children's aid organizations.
But behind the Brylcreem, Xi has the makings of a more complicated figure for a more complicated time, a nationalist with strategic and historical motivations to assert a more muscular Chinese position on the world stage.
A community trying to fight off colonial-era myths about it being taught as fact and history, or a group of scholars deploying the privilege of their positions to assert a dogmatic theory about India never having existed before 1947 over children?
It is during this segment, in which Palin discusses Johnston's decision to pose for Playgirl magazine, that Palin takes the opportunity to engage in her infuriating habit of affecting extraordinariness by asserting a totally common position as though it were exceptional.
