Democrats for their part pressed ahead with their strategy of asserting that the leak case was part of a broader pattern of dishonesty by the administration that had led the nation into war on false pretenses.
He thinks that Turkey made a mistake by ignoring its backyard for so long, and he is convinced that its new strategy of asserting its interests, both in the region and in the world, makes his country more, not less, attractive to the West.
Her friends say this is a coping strategy - a means of asserting some power over a situation over which she has no control.
Hundreds of additional troops have also been assigned to 16 provincial reconstruction teams around the country, part of General Barno's strategy to assert "ownership" of an area rather than hopscotch around the country.
But the report concludes that Beijing, aware of its military's technological deficiencies, has developed less conventional strategies for asserting its power in the region.
But at the end of the day, a strategy of bluffing, or asserting that you have a capability that you don't, is probably the worst posture of all".
It's part of a larger northern strategy aimed at asserting sovereignty and promoting economic development in the region.
At the same time, my own reading of her colloquy with Charles Gibson, her interviewer, was that even after he referred specifically to President Bush's 2002 review of national-security strategy, which asserted a right to preemptive war, an important step on the road to the invasion of Iraq, Palin still did not know quite what Gibson was talking about.
Mr. Warrington has been pursuing an opposite strategy of adding service, while asserting for months that Amtrak should be free of federal operating subsidies by 2003.
It is difficult to gauge to what extent this drove Walton's employee strategy, Lichtenstein asserts, "but in the decades of blistering expansion that began in the early 1970s, Wal-Mart management effectively capitalized upon these long-held rural values".
With Jourdan's misguided overall strategy, Napoleon asserted, the French snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
