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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reassert .
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Examples
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Tim Martin reasserts control of chain he founded as Keith Down and Paul Harbottle leave abruptly weeks before trading update
Wetherspoon pub directors ousted Simon Bowers 2010
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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.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Geoffrey Lean 2011
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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.
Teach Me Tonight 2009
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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.
Book Review: But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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"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.
Gold Price Rises Francesca Freeman 2011
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This awful disease is but one consequence of a collapse of cooperation, when our single-celled heritage reasserts itself.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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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: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011
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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.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer » Print 2009
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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: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Harold Koh Statements on Drone Warfare at ASIL Tonight 2010
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