And perhaps assert national pride at the same time?
We are now witnessing a concentration of power in a political/economic elite that is struggling to assert its legitimacy at the same time as extending its power (through such measures as the proposed extension from 28 days' detention, for example).
In 2011, in an article about the anti-corruption movement, the Economist incoherently asserted that the movement was at the same time right-wing in its flirtation with Hindu chauvinism and left-wing in its love of Indira's economics leaving many Indians flummoxed.
Zsuzsa Csergo notes that newly independent governments looked to "rejoin" the West, in particular the European Union, while at the same time asserting control over the institutions they considered key to the reproduction of national cultures.
Proponents of Jackson's Florida campaigns claimed a place for the United States as a member of the European diplomatic community while at the same time asserting a regional sphere of influence and new rules regarding the application of international law.
The Muslim Brotherhood, for its part, has appeared to seek the political middle ground, supporting a liberalization of the laws to allow nonprofit "civil society" groups to operate more freely while at the same time asserting that the United States cannot put itself above Egyptian laws.
When Pope Benedict bowed to his audience of politicians at the conclusion of his Westminster Hall speech, he was deferring to the legitimate sovereignty and proper autonomy of the political sphere – while at the same time asserting the church's right to hold that sphere to a transcendent ethical horizon.
According to him, the great philosophical move with which which Spinoza founded his system was to distinguish extended substance from thinking substance while at the same time asserting the identity of the two in the one substance which is God.
How to address this profound and pressing national need, while at the same time asserting that we have to potentially make the crisis worse by fixing these fast-evolving networks with what are widely viewed as unworkable engineering mandates.
Because of their belief in the fairness of 'deserved inequalities', such respondents were discovered to have become almost completely unconcerned with the idea of promoting greater equality while at the same time asserting that Britain was a beacon of fairness that offered opportunities for all.
