Antoine Kombouaré, sacked in late December, had already signed goalkeeper Nicolas Douchez and centre-back Milan Biševac when incoming sporting director Leonardo decided to assert his authority by bringing in his own men.
Act 3: in 2011, the Palestinian Authority – now a quasi-state – decides to assert itself and applies for Unesco membership.
If Trump decides to assert privilege over these documents or any other that Congress deems it has a right to access, the conflict could wind up in court.
And so things might have remained had Plook's nose not decided to assert itself – apparently driven mad by jealously at the amount of attention his handsome chin cleft had received over the decades – and called on the services of Potya's master of self-publicity, Straff Plak, an expert at crisis manipulation, news massage and media "extras" (which will appear on your bill simply as "sundries").
Despite internal objections, Trump decided to assert that Mueller had unacceptable conflicts of interest and moved to remove him from his position, according to the people familiar with the discussions.
In response to several reports that Mormons had mistreated federal appointees, in the spring of 1857 President James Buchanan had decided to assert Washington's authority by replacing Brigham Young, Utah's territorial governor and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with his own, non-Mormon appointee.
Had China not decided to assert a claim of cultural property, the Lincoln Center Festival would have begun its 22-hour epresentationtiof of the four-century-old "Peony Pavilion" tomorrow.But even without that event, the festival presumes intensive attention.
Unable to fire the producer (who works for the studio, provider of their pay-cheque), they decide to assert their extraordinary individuality, and talent, by directing the film themselves.
One group thought that No 10 had decided to assert its authority after the launch of a new group of Eurosceptic Tory MPs, Conservatives for Britain, whose central demand for parliament to be given a veto over EU legislation was rejected out of hand by ministers.
Without resolving the philosophical issues around the concept of cause, we simply decided to assert in Opportunity Makes the Thief that opportunity is an important cause of crime.
