Their presence at some tense campus situations, like the protests over the removal of remedial students from CUNY's senior colleges, led critics to assert that the security officers were too militaristic.
After 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed by gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula last Sunday, he dispatched troops to secure the border, moved to assert control of his security leadership team and avoided conflict with Israel.
And they must find the courage to assert civilian control over security services that have too much power and are running amok.
But the tone of the testimony at the Armed Services Committee's three-and-a-half-hour hearing was strikingly grimmer than the Pentagon's previous assessments, which have sought to accentuate the positive even as officials acknowledged that Iraq's government was struggling to assert authority and assure security amid a tide of violence.
Regardless of what caused yesterday's crash, Congress needs to assert federal control over airport security to restore confidence in the nation's commercial aviation.
Mr. Xi is eager to assert authority over the domestic security agencies and the military, said Ding Xueliang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology who has studied corruption in China.
Eight days before the beginning of a contract, employers must inform the French authorities, and once they have received their first salary, researchers need to get in touch with the social security authorities to assert their rights and benefits from the system.
Patients' systematic reference to time represents the process through which they tacitly attempt to assert a degree of ontological security; a renewed semblance of order, identity flux, and connection to life events.
Since Hamas took the PA over from Fatah in March, it has struggled to assert control, especially over the PA security forces, most of whose 60,000-odd members are loyal to Fatah.
Mr. Poindexter, who is 65, was a controversial figure both for his role in the Iran-contra scandals and for his efforts to assert military influence over commercial computer security technologies.
