Haddad said he is unfazed by the military's assertion of power over the parliament and over the presidency.

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On one level, the whole thing was an assertion of raw power, dressed up with the trappings of a grand global strategy.

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The problem of the European Union, by contrast, is not the over-assertion of state power but the abdication of it without a suitable replacement.

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Those views assert that there is something fundamentally wrong with the assertion of US power and therefore the US has no right to defend itself.

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The Scottish National Party alleged that the first minister's "minor parties" remark had contradicted a previous assertion by Mr McLeish that the Tories would never regain power.

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Your assertion that Indonesia is more stable than when Megawati Sukarnoputri came to power is correct.

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