But what does Mr Arafat hope to gain from reasserting his authority in the camps?
Reasserting constitutional principles could have won, but more urgently, would have made Republicans worthy of winning.
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Oddly, at this moment the old imperial temptation appears to be reasserting itself in some European capitals.
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Moscow's calibrated relationship with China is a step toward cautiously reasserting its weight in the region's affairs.
As the past two years' rollercoaster has shown, market forces have a confounded habit of reasserting themselves.
France also is reasserting its role as the most militarily capable European power.
Margaret Thatcher was proudly, quintessentially English at a time when the Scots were rediscovering and reasserting their sense of Scottish identity.
Reared on acts like David Bowie, The Jam, The Specials and The Smiths, these bands now set about reasserting their roots.
But even before he resigned in 2006, the system was reasserting itself.
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Currently, the bloc is walking a tightrope between a rising China and an America that is reasserting its status as an Asia-Pacific power.
In a sense, salt is merely reasserting its historic role as a medium of value: Ancient Chinese economies were based on it (and iron).
Pro-Republican bloggers have attracted headlines and roused followers in a way never been previously achieved, by reasserting moral arguments at the core of Republican ideology.
"I'm reasserting that naproxen is a good first-line therapy, " he says.
Then there is Erdogan's goal of reasserting Turkish regional dominance and reclaiming the lost power of the Ottomans as the leader of the Islamic world.
Rebecca Sullivan, chief executive of the Historical Association, said it welcomed the review for reasserting the importance and centrality of history to "any broad and balanced curriculum".
Now reality is reasserting itself once more, with familiar results.
First he dismissed the idea that the service would become a media company by forcing users to the site or official app for content, before reasserting his belief in syndication.
Recently, with cross-border interventions within Africa becoming more common, and with governments, such as that of Congo, having difficulty in controlling their territory, the Lozis have a better chance of reasserting themselves.
Today people like former Jordanian prime minister Abdul Salim al-Majali are quietly engaging in discussions with the Israeli and American policy communities about the possibility of reasserting Jordanian political responsibility for the Palestinians.
If it focuses on appealing to those customers now for all the reasons they became customers in the first place, RIM can have its own Apple moment, reasserting dominance in a very significant market sector.
It was probably in part the gravitational pull of a great city reasserting itself, but as our special report in this issue explains, it was also the replacement of daft policies with good ones.
"Over the past week, we have seen how the past continues to cast a long shadow over our future, reasserting itself in ways and at times of its own choosing, and that will continue if we do not address the issue, " she said.
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