You needn't have put forth anything as hard-edged as an accusation, but your suspicions combined with the experience of her other clients could have produced a clearer picture and included something like due process and a chance for her to assert her innocence.
An overly simple feminist reading of Joan's story might honor her for asserting a claim to male power, but since her autonomy was based on sexual renunciation, Joan's challenge went to the heart of the way male power is exercised, especially in war.
The father did campaign for him, asserting that his son was his own man.
For if Joe cannot meet Fred's challenge to Mary, Mary loses her justification for asserting that Bill and Jane are divorcing (see Hinchman 2005; Goldberg 2006; McMyler 2007).
The securities fraud charge, which carries a maximum penalty of ten years (actual sentences may be much less) has long been the most controversial aspect of the case against the domestic diva because she has been accused, critics say, of being charged with a crime simply for asserting her innocence.
Issa's committee resolution calls on the full House to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress for asserting her Fifth Amendment rights in not testifying to them.
The State of the Union is a time for reflection, as well as for asserting the nation's priorities for the future.
Speaking to reporters after her arraignment, Ms. Kennedy apologized to Mr. Scuiletti and other drivers she endangered; she suggested that a possible partial seizure might have been to blame for her accident and asserted that neither drugs nor alcohol had been in her system.
She sued her employers for discrimination, asserting that two male colleagues had been treated less harshly when their marriages failed.
Lux, the only one of them who does get out, speak for herself, assert her desires, gets violently punished, and her sisters along with her.
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.
