Word: reassertion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while it took the Crimson an additional year to return to EISL dominance, Cole needed little time to reassert himself in Ivy League competition...
...Being able to score that goal helped reassert the fact that we were in the lead and still in control of the game,” tri-captain Nicole Corriero said...
...That they did is a reflection of Japan's eagerness to reassert itself as an Asian power, its concern about the rise of China, and its traditional ties with Taiwan. The Japanese describe their country's relationship with China as seirei keinetsu?"politically cold, economically hot." Bilateral trade reached $56.8 billion last year, the highest since 2000, but Tokyo is alarmed at China's growing military might. (In its most recent national defense outline, Japan said "attention must be paid" to China's increasing military capabilities.) The joint declaration with the U.S. over Taiwan, says Terumasa Nakanishi, professor of international...
...Hariri, this notion of civil volatility is all too apparent. Consider the two scenarios for Hariri’s assassination: either Syria is responsible, or they are not. If Syria is in fact accountable, the brutal assassination would be motivated by the Syrian leadership’s desire to reassert its power in Lebanon. In recent months, the U.S. has chosen to lambaste Syria’s presence in Lebanon, subsequently imposing sanctions on the country—an ironic demand considering the American occupation of Iraq. Thus, Damascus may have wanted to assassinate Hariri, a prominent Syrian opposition advocate...
...power in the record industry, has no doubt weighed heavily on the band members, whose debut inspired such acute hyperventilation among indie rags. Fortunately, neither the watchful eyes of hipster nation nor the inflated anticipation for their follow-up have knocked Interpol off course. Unintimidated, the band appears to reassert its artistic and commercial ambitions bluntly in the album’s very first line: “We ain’t going to the town/We’re going to the city.” Antics finds the four young men just hitting their stride...