Power-assertion, however, usually is at odds with the promotion of a warm and trusting relationship.
While the United States invaded and occupied Iraq, losing more than 4,400 troops there, Turkey now exerts what may prove a more lasting legacy — so-called soft power, the assertion of influence through culture, education and business.
Control and distribution of food, for example milk as already indicated, reflects women's performance of power and assertion of their roles.
It just takes intention and power of assertion of your will.
Anti-West, moral and cultural conservatism, vertical power structure, assertion of military power, definition of a multipolar world as opposed to an unipolar power one headed by the USA, prize of Eurasian unity (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia) after Ukraine's defection.
The ACLU called such power a "breathtaking assertion" and warned it would be available to future presidents as well.
In Tewksbury, where the police were protecting line crews from irate homeowners, Mayor Dana Desiderio questioned the power company's assertion that only 411 customers still lacked power and its assurances that all customers would regain electricity by Sunday night.
It has a preference for soft power, and mild assertions of influence.
"They are controlled substances commonly called "uppers" and induce false feelings of power, strength, self-assertion and enhanced motivation.
