If only to assert your own authority and power.

One can't suddenly show up out of nowhere and assert one's parental authority.

Have We sent down to them any authority which might assert what they associate with Him ?

Have We sent down to them any authority which might assert what they associate with Him ?

Since his five year term began in September 2008, Zardari has found it hard to assert his authority.

Palestinian Authority President Abbas reiterated his commitment to working towards one authority, one gun a clear pledge to assert the Palestinian Authority's monopoly on the use of force.

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That's how you assert yourself.

What the lively Pakistani media dubbed memogate forced Haqqani to resign and enabled the Supreme Court to assert its authority by deciding to investigate the matter.

Earlier, a number of worrying incidents had underscored the imperative need and urgency for the Palestinian Authority to assert its control and end violence and internal unrest.

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Some claim that the local PLA commander initiated the stand off, while others contend that China s new president, Xi Jinping, was using the transgression to assert his authority over the PLA.

Hamas s determination to assert its authority can be gauged by the desecrated corpses of Fatah fighters, many of them with bullets fired at their heads, a practice dubbed confirmation of death.

New brands can assert themselves by acquiring symbolic capital.

Others assert that the world was created 2,000 years ago.

And what happens when the teacher tries to assert order?

To assert that it has done so, when it did not have the information on the basis of which it might have done so, enhances neither the quality nor the authority of its reasoning.

Widowed women were often unable to assert their ownership of land.

Optimists airily assert that many new types of job will be created.

Consumer activism is activism undertaken on behalf of consumers, to assert consumer rights.

Nevertheless, national security personnel continued to assert arbitrary powers of arrest and detention.

Soon after, hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels approached the islands to assert China s sovereignty.

Economic reform during the 1980s and the devolution of much central government decision making, combined with the strong interest of local Communist Party officials in enriching themselves, has made it increasingly difficult for the central government to assert its authority.

So the US middle class has been doing much better than the statistical pessimists assert.

NEW YORK Contrary to what skeptics often assert, the case for free trade is robust.

What else could it mean to assert that there is no such thing as nature? .

So do not assert similarities to Allah . Indeed , Allah knows and you do not know .

So do not assert similarities to Allah . Indeed , Allah knows and you do not know .

Furthermore, we assert the Iraqi people's right to have exclusive control over their natural resources.

Nor are those recruits only from the Shia and Kurdish communities, as some erroneously assert.

There are already those who assert that our Organization has failed in its new role.

(e) Along with other parties to the inter Congolese dialogue, to reach agreement with the utmost urgency on a fully inclusive transitional Government which can assert its authority and re establish order throughout the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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It is true that Islamic texts assert in various ways the superiority of men to women.

Identity politics allowed ethnic Malays to assert their claims to control over land, language, and religion.

Indeed, her China trip should be seen as an effort to assert leadership across the eurozone.

Better to assert one s knowledge unequivocally, especially if past academic honors certify one s claims of expertise.

Given this change in European dynamics, France should have looked for new ways to assert influence.

In childhood, a boy is allowed to assert himself, while a girl is continuously taught subservience .

There are many organizations that can assert quot a special role in international humanitarian relations quot .

CAIRO You are the authority, above any other authority.

Though Japan had administrative control, Chinese ships would occasionally enter Japanese waters to assert their legal position.

One response is to assert that market outcomes always make everyone better off in the long run.

In this respect, Putin s recent effort to assert tighter state control over private organizations is particularly worrisome.