In the banking plan, Mr. Zhu intends for the central bank to assert stronger control over the provincial banks, creating on a regional basis a system modeled on the American federal reserve system.
John Engler, the former Republican governor of Michigan and now president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said on Wednesday that the new Congress should assert stronger control over E.P.A., which, as he put it, "is getting way outside its authority in trying to regulate that which cannot pass in the legislative process".
Indeed, in an increasingly secular society, it takes great courage to assert strong religious belief".
In these circumstances it's difficult to assert strong leadership and claim the right to be defending the national interest.
The Chinese military, and to a lesser extent the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party, assert strong influence on China's Korea policy, and both powerful entities prefer to keep North Korea close at hand, Chinese and American analysts say.
The Chinese military, and to a lesser extent the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party, assert strong influence on China's Korean policy, and both these powerful entities prefer to keep North Korea close at hand, Chinese and American analysts say.
If Rem Koolhaas, the profession's reigning intellectual prince, casts a long shadow, it's clear that plenty of emerging architects have managed to assert strong creative voices of their own.
The next week, the Times published, in rapid succession, a State Department memorandum saying that Karzai was "unwilling to assert strong leadership" to end drug trafficking — Afghanistan is the source of most of the world's heroin — and a new report on the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan.
The next week, the Times published, in rapid succession, a State Department memorandum saying that Karzai was "unwilling to assert strong leadership" to end drug trafficking Afghanistan is the source of most of the world's heroin and a new report on the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan.
"Although President Karzai has been well aware of the difficulty in trying to implement an effective ground eradication program, he has been unwilling to assert strong leadership, even in his own province of Kandahar," said the cable, which was drafted by embassy personnel involved in the anti-drug efforts, two American officials said.
Karzai Faulted on Heroin United States officials warned in an internal assessment that an American-financed poppy eradication program aimed at curtailing Afghanistan's huge heroin trade had been ineffective, in part because President Hamid Karzai "has been unwilling to assert strong leadership".
