After years of manufacturing handsets for other companies, HTC has begun asserting its own name with high-end smartphones.
Indeed, as part of its contract battle with Verizon, the communications workers' union has began asserting in its picket signs that Verizon and its highly paid chief executive are part of the 1 percent, while the Verizon workers who face demands for concessions are part of the 99 percent.
More recently, the U.S. EPA has simply begun asserting that its procedures have evolved to consider human variation in cancer risk (see question 6 in U.S. EPA 2011), but these amount to one trivial adjustment and one empty promise.
So governments have begun to assert ownership over their vessels, especially warships.
Recently, some analysts have begun to assert that if the company manages to pull off a successful offering, it could jump-start AOL Time Warner's stock price.
The country's leaders have grown more confident on the international stage and have begun to assert greater influence in Asia, Africa and Latin America, with things like special trade agreements and multibillion dollar resource deals.
Nigerian gangs have begun to assert more control over the front end of the process and also increasingly dominate — and profit from — the delivery of the drugs to Europe, whether by sea or air.
As new technologies open up the deep sea, the maritime superpowers of present and past -- notably Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Russia and the United States -- have begun to assert ownership over thousands of ships that were lost in distant waters.
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.
