He endlessly asserted his positioning as a champion of job creation and saving the middle class without discussing policies that would do that.
One Hollywood manager routinely asserts his position while assessing another's place in the pecking order by asking where the other person lives.
By the death of George Frederick of Prussia, Joachim became regent of the duchy of Prussia, ruled nominally by the mentally retarded Albert Frederick, but he had some difficulty in asserting his position (the position being established more firmly by his son and heir John Sigismund, who eventually became duke of Prussia).
Rooney has not been afraid to assert his position in the face of his manager's opinions – it was he who insisted, presciently as it has turned out, that he would be better deployed through the middle – and Ferguson's frustrations about England appear to have fallen on deaf ears in a World Cup year.
Mr Murphy needs to unite the party and assert his position, in the wake of comments by his leadership predecessor Johann Lamont that Scottish Labour was treated like a "branch office" by Westminster colleagues.
His live performance at this years Parklife looks set to assert his position within a new generation of producers; one whose experimentations with house, techno and electronica have captured the imaginations of so many.
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After his brother's assassination, Abdulaziz began to assert his political position.
As he left jurors to decide the case, Mr. Ellyson seemed to define it as a matter of a powerful person, asserting his high position, versus ordinary people, like themselves.
Championing progressive causes was a way to assert his independence — a position he exploited in jockeying for power — and to move in a glamorous international set that suited his bombastic, aspirational self-image.
