The landowners seem to be asserting a power to exclude that they do not possess.
Campbell so intently scrutinizes Margo's inner life that she does not seem to be asserting any larger point about American culture or human nature — but she is.
What the Republican senators seem to be asserting, or deferring to, is not the power of the Presidency or of the legislature but of a body that is not one of the three branches at all: the Republican Party.
Shakespeare seems to be asserting it is, but with modern eyes wary of his treatment of Shylock, we wonder.
With his tilted-back head and sharp stare, he seems to be asserting, with an edge of challenge: "I am here".
With bandanas tied over their faces, and extreme sculptures carried in front as shields, Green seemed to be asserting his stance and refocusing the gaze of spectators to the clothes rather than anything else.
He seems to be asserting that liberal interventionists are good because they advocate use of American force for humanitarian purposes while neocons are bad because they advocate use of force to expand the American empire.
There simply is no evidence that private managers as a class are better at public provision nor that contractorisation works as a principle - yet the prime minister seems to be asserting both.
By the third story, in which he travels to India with a mentally ill friend who comes apart disastrously, some immense, sad reality of life seems to be asserting itself through Damon's quest to keep himself moving, long past any hope that his travels will heal him.
And stay alert!" It was a far cry from some of the Critical Mass rides I'd seen in Houston, where the riders' objective seemed to be asserting their rights of the road.
"It sounds like a lot for a tools developer, but looking at it longer term, if they are able to widen their sphere of influence and broaden their technology base, then it would seem to be a reasonable strategy," asserts George Weiss, analyst with the Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Group.
