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Another attempt to assert control of her own life story has met with less success.
He would feel overwhelmed by the need to assert his control.
So far their efforts to assert control have been of little consequence.
Both men used a fiscal crisis to assert control over city government.
But she asserted control, taking a full minute to get the parts into the desired order.
These organizations asserted control over the entire national economies of the two countries.
First and foremost, many say, will be asserting control over the army.
She tried to assert control while the girl was physically too weak to act.
Its members, former Soviet republics, asserted control of military forces on their soil.
National security is a method whereby the government can assert control over foreign policy.
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