Four years later, the agency has yet to assert that authority.
Even the left-leaning daily newspaper Le Monde said in an editorial that "after 100 days, Mr. Hollande has yet to assert his leadership".
Lastly, we challenge the assumption that labour geographers have not yet asserted themselves as activists in their own right.
Ethnic pride, coming in on the wave of the late sixties, had not yet asserted itself.
The West, he asserts, has yet to recognize the consequences of the rapid rise of this powerful and proudly non-Western society, a development that is likely to challenge and undermine the assumptions underlying the existing global order.
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.
Gareth Bale had yet to assert himself in the fixture while, one early chance aside, Ronaldo had also been surprisingly quiet.
Assailed for the proposal, Trump has yet to reject the idea, asserting, "We're going to have to do things that we never did before," -- an open-ended statement fraught with danger, like former Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion after 9/11 that we needed to go to the "dark side" and torture.
In his lawsuit, which has yet to go to trial, Mr. Greene asserted that the M.T.A. was negligent in failing to furnish the jeep with adequate emergency lights.
Alas, the long-oppressed Shia majority has yet to accept that it cannot assert untrammelled power over its former Sunni masters, while the Sunni Arabs have yet to accept that they make up barely a fifth of Iraqis with no God-given right to recover their former dominance.
The Ugandans have absorbed hundreds of casualties but have soldiered on, steadily eliminating Shabab fighters and freeing up large tracts of territory for Somalia's transitional government to assert itself (which it has yet to do).
