Both men absorbed blows that would render a lot of fighters unconscious, but Gatti kept asserting his superior skills throughout.
Amy would never give Nick the satisfaction of knowing that her treasure hunts are a cruel way of asserting her superior intelligence.
In the weeks that follow, Erika exasperates her young lover, but he retaliates: Walter acts not according to the instructions he receives but with the commonplace violence of an angry man asserting his superior strength, and Erika, disobeyed, is bereft.
But this could still be a quietly significant moment for Reading, who were 1-0 down to Crawley after 14 seconds but refused to panic, instead quietly and attractively asserting their superior attacking play and looking here like what they are: a spirited, well-drilled team that is just a little short of the highest quality.
Typically, the Dick Francis hero is a modest, decent fellow, a model of British valor and integrity, who restores order by asserting his superior moral values — and by going mano a mano with a ruthless villain who subjects him to unspeakable torture.
It traces the historical and conceptual re-orderings through which Maxwell established the law by constructing a tradition of null tests and asserting the superior accuracy of the method.
Politicians cannot rely on the aura of office to persuade, newspapers struggle to assert the superior integrity of their stories.
Convinced of a mortal threat from 'Islamo-fascism', an ideological chimera of their own making, many of this country's brightest men and women reflexively assert that superior force will vanquish it.
The prohibitions have scuttled ads for such products as the Bristol-Myers SquiBufferiniller Bufferin, which claimed to be "the best," and Colgate's diamond-headed toothbrush, which the company asserted was superior to traditional rectangular toothbrushes.
