David Cameron is losing an opportunity to assert himself as leader of a wider European alliance.
He did not need to assert himself.
He has to assert himself.
Mr. Emanuel seemed to look for opportunities to assert his Chicago credentials.
Younger players have more opportunities to assert themselves than in years past.
There are more opportunities to assert yourself, but in Germany the Nazis are rebranding themselves as hipsters and vegans".
Berry Gordy Jr., Motown's founder, declined requests for an interview, but his lawyers contend that the original registration resulted from a clerical error, and that Mr. Strong passed up numerous opportunities to assert his claim.
The prosecutors have lost few opportunities to assert that Mr. Gotti is now the head of what they call "a large and violent criminal enterprise which has a long history of interfering with the judicial process".
And yet the Pakistani state is increasingly seeking opportunities to assert its Islamic identity in order to keep in step with the Pakistani public, which is growing more anti-American and looking to defend Islam from perceived attacks by the West.
Their only purpose is to provide Mr Bremmer with repeated opportunities to assert that "in a G-Zero world" such conflicts can no longer be solved from above.Mr Bremmer is certainly right that a world without America's global leadership is a more dangerous place, but he overstates his case.
