Having reasserted control over Ajaria, Mr Saakashvili can now get his hands on its port, which handles 200,000 barrels of oil per day, and a busy customs post on the border with Turkey.
Imagine if they'd flapped their hands uselessly at their face before embarking on a tedious pre-written speech that thanked their agents and the award committee and all the other nominees and reasserted their love for their husbands and ended with a vague plea for world peace.
And the company reasserted its digital credentials by using the brand new Periscope app to live stream the event.
A centrist speech reasserted NHS values, offered a reassuring (if decidedly vague) undertaking not to privatise, and restated a campaign commitment to find the £8bn that the English NHS is officially deemed to require.
But when the crisis forced households to deleverage, the underlying inequality-driven stagnation may have reasserted itself.Over to OccamYet deleveraging alone may be enough to explain the sluggish growth of recent years.
But since then India has successfully buttered up these island states and reasserted its role in the Maldives.
He has also reasserted himself as "supreme commander" of all the Palestinian police forces, courtesy of a "national security council", which he heads.
At its national-executive meeting this week in Mumbai, the moderate Mr Vajpayee hinted at retirement, while hardliners reasserted the party's Hindu-nationalist roots.
During his campaign Mr de Blasio promised to end "stop and frisk"—a goal he reasserted at his inauguration.
China loudly reasserted its rights to the disputed islands, administered by Japan, which the Japanese call the Senkaku Islands but which in China are known as the Diaoyu Islands.
More recently, it has reasserted its influence in Beirut, partly by backing a Shia party-cum-militia, Hizbullah, which in turn is sponsored by Iran, Syria's biggest friend in the region.
