It is also a demonstration of authority, personality, and charisma.
With a major demonstration of authority, Hollande could start pushing the French by calling on the full institutional powers of the presidency in the manner of François Mitterrand's historic course reversal when he turned away from Socialist economics in 1983.
As a case study of misogyny, Manne considers strangulation — almost always performed by men on female intimate partners — which she describes as "a demonstration of authority and domination," a form of torture that often leaves no marks.
Those results look like a demonstration of taunting authority.
Even his final offer of marriage to Isabella becomes a demonstration of brutal authority.
Elsewhere around Indiana, acts of draft violence large and small brought out military counter-demonstrations of government authority.
For the Soviets, testing the oral Sabin vaccine on over seven million citizens symbolized the victory of the communist ideal, while curbing polio with the live virus vaccine was a powerful demonstration of state authority.
"The beating that it received today," he added, "is a huge demonstration of its loss of authority".
Mr. Gorbachev's remarks come after days of demonstrations against the authorities that have drawn street protests of a size unseen in Russia in years.
In a dramatic demonstration of May's loss of authority, as a result of Thursday's general election – which stripped her of a Commons majority – the MPs demanded that she in effect drop her own Tory "hard Brexit" plans in favour of a new "national" consensus, that would be endorsed by members from all sides of the House of Commons.
The new law is another attempt to forestall violence.Besides requiring masked protesters to identify themselves to the police when asked, the law would stiffen penalties for vandalism and require organisers of demonstrations to forewarn authorities about protests.
