He is an Uncle Tom whose servility has mutated into monstrosity and who represents the symbolic self Django must destroy to assert and maintain his freedom.
Above all, he was concerned to assert and maintain the complete independence of his country and in it the exclusive supremacy of Islam.
A reason driving the establishment of representations is here to assert and maintain a specific identity, as well as to valorize the group (Cohen-Scali and Moliner, 2008).
Buddhism rivalled Islām in the Eastern Steppe, but the Uighurs, interestingly, asserted and maintained their spiritual independence of both of the great civilizations they touched by espousing the Manichaean faith.
Foucault's ideas gave rise in the 1970s and '80s to philosophical postmodernism, a movement characterized by broad epistemological skepticism and ethical subjectivism, a general suspicion of reason, and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power.
The Egyptian ruler knew that he would have difficulty in asserting and maintaining control over northern Syria and Cilicia, which were traditionally oriented more towards Upper Mesopotamia and Iraq.
Furthermore, the Ikhshidids realized that they would have difficulty in asserting and maintaining control over northern Syria and Cilicia, which were traditionally oriented more towards the Jazira and Iraq.
The caudillo in Mexico City had ruled Nuevo Leon and Coahuila since 1855 under the Plan of Monterrey, a constitution that asserted state sovereignty and maintained a militia independent from federal control.
In a recent letter that he wrote to his family from jail and that has been circulating among his close associates, Mr. Bo asserted his innocence and maintained his trademark defiance, declaring that his name would one day be cleared — much like that of his father, Bo Yibo, who was jailed at least twice by his enemies but emerged to become one of the Communist Party's most revered luminaries.
Nils et al. [ 6] asserted that maintaining health worker motivation, access to training and upgrading is an important mechanism to secure motivation.
"Ohio's most populous county, Cuyahoga County, asserted that maintaining in-person early voting would actually alleviate some of its burden by spreading out the demand for voting over more days, thus reducing lines and wait times at polling places on Election Day".
