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Here they are further complicated by the arrival of a much larger number of English fans and a group of organized Russian "Ultras" keen to assert their supremacy in the perverse status culture of European hooliganism.

Here they are further complicated by the arrival of much larger number of English fans and a group of organised Russian "Ultras" keen to assert their supremacy in the perverse status culture of European hooliganism.

Everyone, including the author, is keen to assert their tremendous "respect" for an animal once it is dead, even though this respect mysteriously didn't stretch as far as deciding not to kill it when it was still alive.

Libya and Egypt are especially vulnerable to this kind of contest over symbols and power; their new national governments are still insecure about the exercise of authority, and newly empowered ultraconservative religious groups — mostly known as Salafis — are keen to assert their visibility and influence against other factions.

Under colonial rule, mobility between countries, particularly when they were under the same colonial authority, may have been easier than after decolonisation, when states may have been keen to assert their newly acquired sovereignty by demarcating borders.

Both are keen to assert their own firm stance on border control.

Unlike the Taliban, which was dominated by a single Pushtun tribe, keen to assert its rights over other ethnic groups, the CIC is creaking with inter-communal tensions.

By the same token, if – as many seem keen to assert – postmodernism has already run its course, then what should we say has replaced it, post-postmodernism, perhaps?

When the Nazis seized power three years later the museum was co-opted by the Nazi propaganda machine, keen to assert the importance of heredity, eugenics and "racial hygiene".

AN UNTESTED youngster, keen to assert his leadership ahead of the April 15th centenary of the birth of his revered grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, might easily have opted for a more belligerent first gesture to the outside world.

After all, the average person who thinks about the early 17th century doesn't see a newly emergent merchant class keen to assert its superiority over a landowning elite.