reassert

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It was "foolhardy," he said, for Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to "light a match" with a military operation in South Ossetia to forcibly reassert is authority over the breakaway region.

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  1. To assert again; proclaim or manifest anew. With equal fury, and with equal fame, Shall great Ulysses reassert his claim. Pope, Odyssey, xvii. 147.

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  • One hears different things in the music with each performance: different rhythmic and melodic profiles emerge momentarily then merge with others or are suddenly eclipsed; a line sheers off into the distant background, only to reassert itself in a new guise moments later or after a lengthier interval. —  CounterPunch
  • If Pakistan manages to reassert control over these groups, India will have a relatively easier time managing its so-called nonstate actor threat with Islamabad. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • If they wish to reassert any kind of authority they should re forecast now. —  John Redwood
  • Then there are the others where egos get in the way or those who just don't have the real smarts and have to demonstrate their domination in ways that are crass, obvious, self-satisfying or need to reassert control through pain of some sort. —  National Catholic Reporter
  • Russia has never gone so far as to cut supplies to Turkey directly, but Turkey has been indirectly affected more than once when Russia decided to cut supplies to Ukraine because Moscow felt the need to reassert its writ in Kiev. —  WORLDMag.com
 

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