Senators looking to check Trump's trade agenda saw hope for more action after Wednesday's vote, when the Senate voted 88 to 11 to approve language asserting "a role for Congress" when Trump imposes tariffs in the name of national security, as he has done with steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada, Mexico, the European Union and others.
But Mr. Lieberman, who refers at every campaign stop to his Jewish faith and the role of religion in Mr. Gore's life, went further today than he previously had in this campaign in asserting a role for religion in politics and public discourse.
By asserting a role in the final decision, Obama has made the project a defining point in his administration's stance on environmental issues -- a fact protesters have been keen to emphasize through demonstrations that began in August.
With Ms. Karimova now apparently out of contention, the succession in Uzbekistan has narrowed to two insiders, a prime minister and a deputy prime minister, while the National Security Service chief, Rustam Inoyatov, is trying to assert a role as kingmaker.
The general reports to Stephen A. Cambone, who since 2003 has used his newly created post as under secretary of intelligence to assert a role in which he has competed with George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, and his successors for influence over American intelligence agencies.
The new counterinsurgency campaign is also a vivid example of the American military's asserting a bigger role in a part of Pakistan that the Central Intelligence Agency has overseen almost exclusively since Sept. 11.
Some Muslims had a "dual psychology", he said, that insisted on playing the victim in some places while asserting a dominant role in others.
The lingering suspicions between Poland and Russia were on display outside the gates of the presidential palace, where a crowd of protestors held up large placards asserting a Russian role in the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and many members of the Polish military and government establishment.
From there to asserting a real leadership role in reformed institutions is still a considerable leap.
Noting reports of sporadic clashes between militias as well as vigilante revenge killings, many civilian leaders, along with some fighters, say the militias' shift from merely dragging their feet about surrendering weapons to actively asserting a continuing political role poses a stark challenge to the council's fragile authority.
While solution to violent extremism remain essentially the subject of discussions in the national intelligence, border security and law enforcement agencies, a growing number of cities are therefore asserting a more prominent role in testing out local solutions for preventing violent extremism.
