Terrorism solved this problem once and for all: henceforth, we wouldn't need to act rationally toward the shifting balance of power in the rest of the world, but would just focus on asserting our inherent superiority over and over.
Focus on asserting your own relevant facts to establish your credibility, and drive the narrative rather than reacting to the other side's version of it.
But in the last 30 years, it has particularly focused on helping women assert themselves within the cinema milieu.
The Olympics, with the medal counts and the wide range of sports that one country or another — the U.S.S.R., the United States, Cuba, or the two Germanies — had decided to focus on, to assert supremacy, became a full-on superseries of contrasting ideologies, sporting philosophies, and performance-enhancing-drug regimes.
In arguing that businesses had escaped their fair share of the total tax burden, the governor focused on large corporations -- asserting, for example, that 30 of the 50 largest employers in the state paid only the minimum corporate tax of $200 a year.
Instead of worrying about who is asserting a patent, we should focus on whether the asserting entity is abusing the patent system.
In a State of the Union address largely focused on economic themes, he asserted that "we can't just cut our way to prosperity" and suggested that it is time for a more balanced approach, including accepting that government has a vital role to play in ensuring economic growth and a secure middle class.
The Court then focused on deciding whether the asserted claims captured no more than an abstract idea that is, "nothing more than a fundamental truth or disembodied concept without any limitation in the claims tying that idea to a specific application".
But in his written statement, Mr. Holt cited "multiple press accounts" in saying that "the C.I.A. report concludes that senior intelligence officials failed to do all that they could have to prevent the attacks, and that White House officials were not as focused on the Al Qaeda threat as previously asserted".
