In January 2007 Mr Hu gave a speech to the Politburo calling for it to "assert supremacy over online public opinion" and "study the art of online guidance".
That, it seems, is a defining moment: the team captains duking it out, literally, in an effort to both get their teams fired up and to assert supremacy on the ice, and a snapshot of Iginla's role with the Flames.
The Olympics, with the medal counts and the wide range of sports that one country or another — the U.S.S.R., the United States, Cuba, or the two Germanies — had decided to focus on, to assert supremacy, became a full-on superseries of contrasting ideologies, sporting philosophies, and performance-enhancing-drug regimes.
To assert supremacy over the United States -- over We the People -- endangers the liberties and freedoms secured for us in the US Constitution.
This slide away from secular debate leads increasingly to polarization, greater animosity and a loss of civility because the only way to support a position is simply to assert supremacy as loudly as possible.
When the most powerful demographic in the United States came together to assert that making America great again meant asserting their supremacy, they were asserting my supremacy.
Andrew Jackson issued his "Proclamation to the People of South Carolina," asserting the supremacy of the federal government and warning that "disunion by armed force is treason".
Though much of Dawkins's oeuvre generated debate for asserting the supremacy of science over religion in explaining the world, nothing matched the response to the polemical The God Delusion (2006).
Michael Gove, the new justice secretary, is planning to implement two key manifesto pledges: scrapping the Human Rights Act and asserting the supremacy of the UK's supreme court over Strasbourg.
Gorbachev was stymied by opposition from within the Soviet bureaucracy; the strength of Xi's anti-corruption campaign is that it reforms the party while asserting his supremacy over it.
Hezbollah sees a joint American-Israeli attempt to reshape the region in the Western image, through the invasion of Iraq and the emphasis on democracy, and is determined to block it by asserting the supremacy of Islam.
