The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, will soon decide whether to vacate the men's convictions in light of the new disclosures and perhaps assert their innocence.
They marched into the home ballparks of their main competition in the division — the entire league, perhaps — and asserted their superiority.
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.
To reassure Mr. Hirsch that he wouldn't drown, and perhaps to assert his own physical self, Mr. Penn shot though the rapids first, even though he too had never done it before.
Possibly the original protest song, written in reaction to the ubiquitous "God Bless America," Lady Gaga used some of its lyrics during the last Super Bowl's Halftime Show, perhaps to assert subtly but defiantly that America belongs to all of us, and not just American-born, white, Christian men.
Moreover, the penmen of the established order, the state and the business world are endeavouring to tempt him into a moderate course by asserting (perhaps correctly) that the epithet "Islamist" does not become him.
He twice pulled out of scheduled rematches with Klitschko, and at one point announced his retirement, asserting — accurately, perhaps, but not very encouragingly — that boxing was "a pile of shit".
