The period following Bakiyev's election was marked by political instability as the new president worked to assert his authority.
But in Stamford, tensions between the two sides have been simmering for a decade as officials have worked to assert more control over the city's firefighting operations.
With citizen reporters regularly turning to social media first – and not typically on Google+, the company's own social media site – Google is working to assert the variety of other ways it has to participate in the reporting process, ranging from first-hand videos posted to YouTube to its wealth of data and information collected from the world's searchers.
The author compares Lady Gaga to Madonna, writing that both are independent and work to assert control over their futures.
At a time when laws like 1070 and HB 2281 are attempting to silence voices and diminish perspectives, Poets Responding is working to assert a place for them.
We can certainly blame him, however, for turning up the heat on planet Earth by announcing plans to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, overseeing the slashing of tax incentives for alternative energy (amid a bonanza of favors for the fossil fuel industry), and working to assert an oil, gas, and coal version of American "energy dominance" globally.
That is, this peace process, its lexicon, and its orthodoxy work to assert a false reality of mutual national struggle, which in turn erases the legacy of Israeli foundational violence and, therefore, the anti-colonial Palestinian struggle.
Mr. Franken, 56, who left Minnesota to go to Harvard and moved back three decades later, has worked hard to assert his Minnesota roots.
It's up to members of our respective community, whether in Texas or other parts of the country, to work together to assert our voices in curriculum reform.
We've covered this: the real news cycle win is the fact that none of these panelists are working hard to assert their own perceptions over the ones that the vast teevee audience already have.
