She says that she bugged him for years to tell us, but he would always assert to her that we were white.
Sasha and Coz had dubbed that feeling she got the "personal challenge," as in: taking the wallet was a way for Sasha to assert her toughness, her individuality.
As someone who always likes to assert her difference, her sense of humour and street cred will always be part of the act.
From now on, Mrs. Clinton will be under continuous pressure to assert her independence from her husband and to fight her own fights.
In a famous 1956 case, a 9-year-old named Abby Hoffman, who had cut her hair short and was calling herself Ab in order to play hockey, went all the way to the Ontario Supreme Court to assert her right to play on a boys' team.
But the Zwirner gallery, which took over representation of Ms. Dumas in 2008, told her about it, Mr. Robins asserts, causing her to add his name to the blacklist, according to his suit.
Later she confides: "I would like to get stronger, to assert myself, to harm her, Doctor".
The essential function of informed consent is to disclose all relevant considerations associated with the procedure, so as to allow the patient to assert her right to self-determination (autonomy).
The whole image is geared to assert her right to recognition by London society, which regarded her as a demimondaine.
When the glow of comfort wears off, when the woman he's with begins to assert her individuality and her will, the cycle of despondency begins again.
