So deprived are its people of both external and internal sources of information that the regime has been able to assert control.
Hamas may have demonstrated that after several weeks—it has been able to assert its authority over one militant group, but a much more difficult road lies ahead.
Many widows of the genocide have been able to assert their rights and pursue justice through the courts as a result of Avega East's work.
The vote will have little, if any, practical effect on government policy, but it means that the Lib Dems have been able to assert their identity and it will probably cheer the delegates immensely.
Devecser's mayor, Tamas Toldi, a member of the ruling rightist Fidesz party, says he was unable to stop the gathering, which he had been told was a peace march.Mr Toldi says he was "really angry" at the speeches, but it would have been "unwise" to try and stop proceedings in mid-flow because the police would not have been able to assert their authority.
That is partly because, in a campaign, the policies that they have spent their obscurity developing will get the hearing some of them deserve.The one subject on which the party, and especially Vince Cable, its shadow chancellor, have sometimes been able to assert themselves is the economy deservedly, since their position has often been more grown-up than Labour's or the Tories'.
