In the 1980s a neoclassical (sometimes called neoliberal) counterrevolution in development theory and policy reasserted dominance over structuralist and other schools of thought in much of the world.
As a private company pushing the boundaries of commerce and finance, there is always a fear that the state or state-owned banks will try to reassert dominance in a given sector.
The right-wing Heritage Foundation published a position paper a day after the 2010 earthquake about the latter being an opportunity for the U.S. to reassert dominance in the region eroded by the U.N. troops, Cuban medical assistance, and Venezuelan institutions like Petro Caribe.
The attack provided further evidence that Egypt's security establishment was reasserting its dominance after President Mohamed Morsi's ouster three weeks ago, and widening its crackdown on his Islamist allies in the Muslim Brotherhood.
More often than not, it happens in the early rounds when a higher-seeded team (like the Devils) falls behind a lower-seeded team (like the Senators) before recovering its composure and reasserting its dominance.
And in the race for mayor, the news intensified the worry some voters feel about the city's machine politics reasserting their dominance upon the departure of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a political independent whose inner circle has been largely free of corruption.
When Japan decided last year to phase out its loan aid to China by 2008, the state media published indignant commentaries describing this as an affront, and only in passing revealed details of Japan's largesse.For the Chinese Communist Party, it is useful to portray Japan as an unrepentant aggressor with dreams of reasserting military dominance over Asia.
Without rationalizing specific policy choices, they describe the "paradox" Obama confronted on taking office when the country faced a genuine risk of another depression: "how to heal a fragile economy without simply reasserting the dominance of the forces that had brought that economy to the brink of ruin".
The second-seeded Czech wasted no time in reasserting her dominance on her favorite court, overpowering Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 6-1, 6-0 in just 35 minutes.
It is a consummate irony that ultra-nationalism has been repackaged for voters as an effort to regain local control, protect national boundaries and reassert the dominance of local ethnic groups.
