Victory in his first final as Liverpool captain would help Henderson assert greater authority, however.
Mr. Morales has also moved to assert greater state control of the energy, telecommunications and mining industries.
Others detect the start of a trend whereby Chinese car manufacturers will assert greater authority over their Western and Japanese partners.
Both the cabinet and the Chamber were determined to assert greater control over the war effort, so that the high command's authority was steadily whittled away.
Some Iranian hard-liners are said to believe that such a war would benefit them, allowing them to close ranks and assert greater authority for the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Still, the nationalization talk points to a broader effort by Mrs. Kirchner to assert greater state control over areas of Argentina's economy.
Mr. Chávez is also trying to assert greater control over the armed forces through a decree creating militias, a new military branch he has pushed for.
President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia warned the Bush administration on Thursday that Russia was trying to assert greater control over his country, a former republic in the old Soviet Union.
In those two countries, it has allowed civilians to assert greater control over the military, and peace agreements have helped make shallow democracies deeper and more inclusive.
In the nineteen-fifties, governments in the region moved to assert greater control over the rivers with aggressive programs of dam construction.
Mr. Humala has sought to assuage concerns among business interests about changes he wants in Peru, including a constitutional overhaul to prioritize social welfare for the poor and to assert greater state control over the mining and energy industries.
