Spreadeagled poses in humans and animals have always been used to assert dominance, and are most often displayed by men.
It also characterised Taiping as a rock, meaning it could not be used to assert territorial claims over surrounding waters.
If the two troopers stand trial, the picture will be used to assert that officers were encouraged to use race in selecting whom to stop, frisk and arrest, said Jack Arsenault, who represents Mr. Kenna.
Dueling jurisdictions want control of the case, and the new evidence was used to assert that Virginia was the best venue for the first trial of the pair, who could be eligible for the death penalty.
An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society.
The same analysis of subtle markers has been used to assert the existence of a single prehistoric Adam, a human who had a subtle mutation in the Y chromosome whose descendants left their compatriots in Africa and populated the rest of the Earth, possibly then returning to Africa as well.
Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society.
Austin holds that modifiers like "voluntarily" and "involuntarily" are used to assert the respective presence and absence of specific elements in the general machinery of action.
In (7) 'It is raining' is used to assert that a state of affairs obtains (it's raining), and in (8) it is asserted that if that state of affairs obtains, so does another (the streets being wet).
This fits assumptions that are used in popular trainings on social competences, as for example from Hinsch and Pfingsten (2007), where three prototypical types of situations are used (to assert one's right, to maintain relationships, to bid for sympathy).
