In many of these stories of parting, the protagonists are seen as asserting their individuality, being true to themselves, finding themselves after years of self-denial and unspoken misery.
In 2003 a mob burned Thailand's embassy in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, over misunderstood comments by a Thai actress that were seen as asserting Thai sovereignty over Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex.If ASEAN were unable to prevent another such accident, the world's doubts about the block's relevance would only deepen.
However, the autonomy of the Kantian ethical subject can also be seen as asserting a sublated form of self-will, namely in its will to form as well as to conform to the universal.
His models strode out against an inferno; this was, he later asserted, a look he saw as completely wearable.
What could be clearer than "the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion?" Even the phrase "in any sense" was seen as necessary to assert forever the principle of religious neutrality.
Is there really an essentially English way of seeing and an altogether different Indian way of seeing, as Naipaul asserts in "Looking and Not Seeing: The Indian Way," the first of the book's two chapters on India, part reminiscence about his family's roots, part portrait of Gandhi?
In the north, tensions with the Kurds escalated after Mr. Maliki sent soldiers to the region in what was seen as an attempt to assert control.
The statement was also seen as a move to assert his leadership and to define a new strategy for the opposition movement, which is facing mounting government pressure.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The British politician Paddy Ashdown withdrew his name from consideration for the post of United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan on Sunday, after being rejected by President Hamid Karzai in what was widely seen as a move to assert his authority against Western control.
If Mr Corbyn had come back after Christmas without any forewarning of what was to happen, and had called his colleagues in for a frank discussion about working as a team, moved Maria Eagle, and sacked the pair he regarded as his irreconcilable enemies, there would have been protests, of course, but on the whole it would have been seen as a legitimate exercise in asserting his authority.
Instead, each moment in a person's life ("event") is seen as a new actuality, thus asserting that continual change and transformation are fundamental, while static identities are far less important.
