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In the meantime, the Supreme Military Council said it would exercise self-asserted authority to decree new laws and maintain stability, according to a communiqué read on state television.

Egyptian military dissolves parliament and suspends constitution, but says it will only keep power until elections can be held Craig Whitlock 2011

In the meantime, the Supreme Military Council said it would exercise self-asserted authority to decree new laws and maintain stability, according to a communiqué read on state television.

Egyptian military dissolves parliament and suspends constitution, but says it will only keep power until elections can be held Craig Whitlock 2011

Information that violates self-asserted standards is seized on as revelatory in the character department, but part of the newsroom's enthusiasm for such discoveries is the insta-innocence factor: Hey, these aren't our standards, they're the candidate's own.

Jay Rosen: Bill Keller: "I'm Proud to Stand by This Story." Times Public Editor: You Were Wrong To Run It. 2008

He knew that if he were to ask permission he would be refused, but if he and Rad together were to go it might receive favourable consideration on account of Rad's self-asserted reputation for common sense.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

A few weeks of gaming and of roistering, of self-asserted claims!

The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

All these by a self-asserted authority the coming European civilizer, with Bible in hand, taxed with tribute of gold, labour, liberty, life.

Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885

Here strolled the supple, panther-like Azimoolah, the self-asserted favourite of home society in the pre-Mutiny days.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

Flat and wide, the eye found it difficult to rest upon it and not sweep hurriedly from border to border for lack of self-asserted object on which to alight.

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

Sensible people would have no trouble in deciding on whom to place greater credence in relation to acute risks to humanity, a Nobel Laureate in Medicine such as Professor Peter Doherty or an anonymous, self-asserted scientist indulging in false, ad hominem pejoratives with the courage of anonymity.

newmatilda.com - Comments DrGideonPolya 2009

In contrast to the endorsement of David Spratt from top scientists, the ad hominem attacks on David Spratt on this thread have been made by anonymous self-asserted scientists with the courage of anonymity.

newmatilda.com - Comments DrGideonPolya 2009