Since June, Hama has been largely free of security forces, allowing it to assert a measure of independence.
He recorded the scenes not only to tell the story but also, perhaps, to assert some measure of control as the family fell apart under pressure from the police and the community.
They knew that Bradbury, despite his position as a Martian-like figure of sorts (a denizen of a separate and distant planet called America), was, in effect, one of them: a Soviet child, frightened by the dark, complex, and essentially unknowable world of his own existence and continuously striving, in vain, to assert a measure of control over his circumstances.
In short, despite its considerable drawbacks – as catalogued below – there are real advantages to engaging in this work that may not be available elsewhere, such as managing one's own working hours, ready cash, earning higher wages than in other available employment [ 16, 17] and being able to assert some measure of independence over one's working environment.
But opponents continued to assert that the new measure was nothing more than a delaying tactic aimed at ensuring that Mr. Chávez remained in power.
It takes a large measure of self-confidence for a performing group to assert its virtuosity in its name.
Last October, the National Republican Senatorial Committee teased Bennet for not taking a stance on ColoradoCare, and used his silence to assert that he was for the measure.
This final issue has remained unnoticed mainly because no one has been able to assert for sure what it is that is measured by a cloze test.
In order to assert sample fiber deformation due solely to lateral forces, displacements measured on the non-tilting configuration were subtracted from displacements measured on the tilting configuration.
Several states sought a larger measure of independence from the central government, and Sikh separatists in Punjab state used violence to assert their demands for an autonomous state.
