The writer, Sushanta Talukdar, wrote: They tried to assert their territory-linked ethno-linguistic and ethno-cultural identity and clamoured for political and cultural autonomy through movements spearheaded by mass organisations as well as armed groups, with each group claiming to be their sole representative.
Annual closings are how modern owners assert their dominion.
In an editor's note, Mr. Solotaroff announced that his publication would studiously avoid "the tendency toward cult and coterie by which literary magazines usually define their particular territory and assert their standards".
By the example of these and other Aboriginal writers, Aboriginal people have entered into history to assert their claim to the imaginative territory of Australia a claim especially significant in the last decade of the 20th century as Australians attempted to effect a process of mutual understanding and reconciliation.
Industry researchers assert their findings, and government researchers assert theirs.
But that pressure comes at the same time that a groundswell of indigenous peoples across Turtle Island (the indigenous name for North America) are rising up against pipeline projects, using both legal challenges and encampments on traditional territory, as seen at Standing Rock, to assert their land rights and delay pipeline construction.
Refugees began to recover camel husbandry as a livelihood strategy and the camel re-emerged as a potent symbol as refugees and the Polisario Front (the Sahrawi's political representative) struggle to assert their newfound national identity, regain access to all of their traditional territory and reaffirm their shared nomadic cultural heritage.
According to McDonald, it's a particularly potent tool for Palestinian musicians and activists, who have used it as a way to assert their identity while living in exile or under Israeli occupation in territories like the West Bank.
The crossover territory between classical, jazz and pop has remained largely uninhabited since the era when prog-rockers strove to assert their musical chops with ill-advised symphonic works and temporary alliances with classical musicians who sometimes – as Frank Zappa learnt to his dismay – regarded the commission with a disrespect bordering on contempt.
Advanced draftniks assert their individuality in other ways.
But even here, the Taliban assert their influence.
