Regional powers are swimming around each other, cautiously and nervously, jockeying to assert their own strength but trying to avoid the kind of sea-based conflict that many observers fear is looming.
In contrast to the Republicans, who arrived late and left early (if they arrived at all), all but one of the Democrats arrived early and stayed late, filling up their side of the Armed Services Committee table quickly, eager to assert their new strength.
The result, in Indonesia and Russia, is rampant corruption and a fragmentation of power in which neither the army, the Parliament, the executive nor the remnants of the old order have the strength to assert their will.
7) Physical Domination and Abuse: Some adolescents use their size and strength to assert their power.
Industry researchers assert their findings, and government researchers assert theirs.
"In this research we show that upper body strength modulates men's willingness to assert their self-interested position," study co-author Dr. Daniel Sznycer, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Center for Evolutionary Psychology, told The Huffington Post in an e-mail.
In spite of their melancholic look, these elders, with the strength of their dignified and elegant postures, assert their fight against old age and are firmly planted in their homes.
In a militarist society, guns are associated with vitality, sexuality, strength, one's ability to defend oneself, as much as to assert their dominance over another.
The book's real strength lies in its analysis of the post-Civil War era, when a flood of new money forced New York's more established families to look to the public arena as a place to assert their distinctiveness.
Annual closings are how modern owners assert their dominion.
