Parents who rely on power assertion simply declare what is right and wrong, and resort more often to physical punishment or strong emotional responses of anger.
Never mind that his wingtip side-sliding moves articulate evil more than charm; you can't keep your eyes off him, especially when, in a moment of performative assertion, he declares, "I am the spirit that negates".
The novel's title might seem to suggest a moment of self-assertion, of confidently declaring that you are who you are.
That assertion, and a variation declaring the Kool brand family to be "the house of menthol," are delivered in a quirky graphic style meant to stand out amid the clutter of cigarette pitches.
Dragoljub Micunovic of the Democratic Party, who defeated a Socialist candidate in Belgrade, told reporters the opposition should look into assertions of irregularities before declaring the elections fair and honest.
Many of Trump's more controversial assertions since he declared for president have come from the murky swamp of right-wing, libertarian and flat-out paranoid sources that have proliferated and thrived as the Internet and social media have grown.
Proofs were valid because they were constructed through the application of the rules of inference, according to which new assertions could be declared to be true simply because they could be derived, by means of these rules, from the axioms or previously proven theorems.
He repeated his assertion that "my union has done nothing wrong", declaring to loud cheers: "This is our party and we are going nowhere".
In Toronto, the number of SARS cases is ebbing, but health officials have been cautious about declaring the outbreak over, having made the assertion in mid-May only to find the disease was spreading unchecked through two Toronto hospitals.
However, he disputed Oracle's assertion that Google stole its intellectual property when it used Java declaring code in Android.
