This man was trying to assert force on me.
Such a referendum would badly embarrass the government, Mr. Fernández asserted, forcing Mr. Chávez to resign.
His brutal creation then had to be controlled in order for life to continue, which is why Yazdi developed the doctrine of harekate qasri, which asserts that force and violence must be used to bring people onto the right path.
I find it remarkable that the Bush administration proposes to radically expand the military budget before a thorough assessment of the security breach of Sept. 11 has taken place ("Rumsfeld Asserts Forces Must Take Risks and Think Creatively to Prepare for New Challenges," news article, Feb. 1).
He asserts that force is only part of the solution to modern conflicts; they require complex political and military solutions, which will subdue but not necessarily permanently end the conflict.
The Transvaal government made further concessions, but by this time Milner had determined that British supremacy in Southern Africa should be asserted by force; hence, he remained intransigent.
Bonnie Kristian, a fellow at Defense Priorities, a thinktank set up by Rand Paul and the Koch Brothers to argue a position incorporating "greater reluctance to assert military force or even impose sanctions" on traditional US enemies like Iran and North Korea.
(The story also features the phrase "Ain't this a blip!," which Collins used in a similar way in "Losing Ground," to assert the force of black-American experience against the ostensible neutrality of white-toned academic culture).
They start with trying to solve a problem by asserting superior force over a population.
The force functions specify precisely what an encrypted message asserts, but the force functions alone do not indicate how an agent should interpret the new information.
