Like the cold war, this one, while it lasts, will assert a gravitational pull on everything.
Even as consumers increasingly demand their entertainment when and where they want it, a counter-trend will assert itself in 2014: box-office revenue will amount to $38bn, surpassing sales and rentals of DVDs and Blu-ray by $2bn.
"Through its board members the state will assert its position as a shareholder," the spokesman said, according to Reuters.
I will assert that it is a coherent theory, even if it is far from complete and possibly not even correct.
Just about anybody who immerses him- or herself in the discipline will assert that it is almost entirely a head game.
In fact, some will assert that it's another reflection of hard times, the strain of economic uncertainty and doom wearing on social patience.
Faculty are often perplexed by students like Josephina, who do not seem to have mastered learning how to learn, and some faculty will assert that it is their job to "teach biology, not study strategies".
China on Thursday will assert its military might with a large parade commemorating the end of the second world war.
If the effect is produced in such situations, it will then conclude the first principle, which will assert the material definition of the attribute to its formal definition.
If it does not push, there is a risk that Taiwan will assert a separate identity more clearly.
