The game was goalless at the time, Roma had failed to assert themselves and Totti was left to slunk off the pitch after a frustrating afternoon in which he had received the first booking for a foul he committed after being caught in possession.
As non-Russian republics have begun to assert themselves, Russians have begun to demand autonomy over their politics and culture, and most important, over their economies.
In recent years the generational divides that have long wracked New York hip-hop have begun to assert themselves in the South, which evolves at a quicker pace than either of the coasts ever did, and which has therefore had little use for nostalgia.
Obviously it doesn't help when you concede in the first minute, but they've struggled to assert themselves in the game and had very little goalmouth action to speak of.
It had a "look how many foreign nationals have tried to assert themselves on Japanese soil and ended up dead beneath a commemorative pillar" feel.
The laws of gravity, both political and economic, have yet to assert themselves on whoever will lead Egypt, which is why today I am in a listening and watching mode, with more questions than answers.
To some extent, the struggle is also between the old-guard technical wizards like Mr. Postel and the new commercial interests that have begun to assert themselves as the Internet expands.
Now that the big labels have started to assert themselves, no one knows how artists of the future will be heard.
