I learnt, by joining and leaving, to assert my own independence.
A related point can be made when people assert that economic structures and policy should be left to economists, or when people assert that economic policy can be pursued without reference to distributive justice.
China has left the door open to his return, asserting that he left to collect ritual instruments, but exile leaders said he was fleeing religious restrictions.
Yet, this system built by white men is a trap: workers are enslaved by hourly wages and tethered to work-bound insurance and retirement so that those workers have no real humanity left, no option to assert their dignity, their voices.
But Israel tried that with Hezbollah in Lebanon and failed, leaving Hezbollah leaders to assert when the war was over that they had stood up to Israel.
THE next phase of an ambitious, attention-getting campaign for the Hewlett-Packard Company leaves the garage to assert that past is prologue.
Perhaps the only way left for an act to assert control is simply to walk up to a box office and hand over cash.
"All efforts by Mr. Jensen to resolve the matter amicably were unavailing," Mr. Arkin said, "and Pillsbury left him no choice but to assert his claims".
