Reasserts

Tim Martin reasserts control of chain he founded as Keith Down and Paul Harbottle leave abruptly weeks before trading update ❋ Simon Bowers (2010)

Mr Cameron's initiative opens the way to developing a definition that reasserts the primary purpose of planning - to balance competing demands for one of the country's scarcest and most valuable resources, land. ❋ Geoffrey Lean (2011)

But even within such a novel, we can sometimes find moments of tension or counter-discourse, in which the "worldly" meanings of terms reasserts itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They will face other challenges as the U.S. reasserts its influence among Asian nations wary of China's military power. ❋ Jeremy Page (2012)

Mr. Obama would get more cooperation in Islamabad if he reasserts that the U.S. remains committed to the current strategy and timetable in Afghanistan, with 2014 as a goal to transfer security responsibility to Kabul. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At the height of this leap, before gravity reasserts itself, there is a moment of absolute weightlessness — bright, clear, serene — before he is falling again, gliding in a gorgeous arc, subsiding into the deep moan of the blues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even if eliding those categories is nothing new, given how fraught this project has become, how high the stakes are, one shouldn't sneer at an architecture that confidently reasserts the old power of abstraction and modernity. ❋ Philip Kennicott (2010)

Praise its technical sophistication and virtuosity, its often-clever art historical homages, "conversations" and allusions, and it humbly reasserts its earthy roots and its unpretentious simplicity. ❋ ArtScene (2011)

This trend reasserts itself with street cars, subway lines and bus routes in city after city, decade after decade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What can we do, as Putin reasserts himself and Russia's international behavior continues to unsettle its neighbors such as Georgia and Ukraine? ❋ Jennifer Rubin (2011)

What is unreal is what comes after the initial high, when the personality self reasserts itself and the wounds and triggers of our human ego form a veil across the face of love. ❋ Marianne Williamson (2012)

Glasgow music Dolly Parton reasserts her title as the "Queen of Country Music," with the start of the European tour for her latest and 41st album release,"Better Day," in the U.K. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"In markets that have been shaken as badly as the gold market has been shaken, it will take days… perhaps even weeks… before the bullish trend clearly reasserts itself," Mr. Gartman said. ❋ Francesca Freeman (2011)

That makes for a hard fall when gravity reasserts itself. ❋ John Jannarone (2011)

This awful disease is but one consequence of a collapse of cooperation, when our single-celled heritage reasserts itself. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

It appears to address situations of safe havens, for example, and indeed reasserts the traditional US view — that sovereignty and territorial integrity are important, but the US preserves its rights to go after its enemies in their safe havens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Relying on expertise amassed in his long academic career, he reasserts the uniqueness of Greek political evolution, the mysterious and somewhat miraculous process that culminates, at the end of this account, in the emergence of Athenian democracy. ❋ James Romm (2012)