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.
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.
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.
He said that an article in this week's Newsweek, asserting that Mr. Giuliani had decided to undergo both surgery and radiation treatment and had all but decided to quit the Senate race, was "a lie".
Asserting that Republican leaders had decided to make the Legislature "an arm of the George W. Bush campaign," Ms. Frankel accused Mr. Feeney of weakening Democratic presence on the committee by naming Democrats from districts with substantial Bush support.
Republican officials attacked that agreement, asserting that the Clinton administration had decided to go soft on the Laborers because President Clinton was friendly with Mr. Coia.
He had decided to attend.
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").
In a prudent turnabout, the Food and Drug Administration has decided to suspend a regulation that it issued last month that would have allowed the manufacturers of dietary supplements to assert that their products ease the symptoms of pregnancy.
Thaizinred asserted the right to be frivolous: After several serious reads, I've decided to go the other way and read something deeply silly.
In a statement, Watson said: "I've decided to help prevent Aberdeenshire folk from the harassment and threat of removal from their homes, merely to satisfy a private developer who asserts he now wants the land".
