| It wasn't until I climbed out of the pinewoods above Invercauld that spring finally started to assert itself. |
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| The young malamute can pass through an adolescent stage where it attempts to assert itself by growling. |
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| If Europe is to assert itself on the world stage, it needs to have a common security and defence policy. |
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| With its high-quality, innovative products it can assert itself in the market without significant price concessions. |
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| Uzbekistan is central Asia's most populous state and strives to assert itself as a regional power. |
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| I believe that this camp will assert itself more and more forcefully in the coming months as it finds itself increasingly the object of focus for the two other camps. |
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| The Independent Media Commission continues to assert itself in the regulation of the print and broadcast media in Sierra Leone. |
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| You want a sauce thick enough that it can swaddle and coddle those eggs and assert itself in each mouthful. |
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| A participation does not assert itself, but builds itself through previous information on water management and on the stakes. |
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| It is the aggressive attempt to export liberal permissiveness that causes fundamentalism to fight back vehemently and assert itself. |
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| But when it comes to controlling budget deficits, the commission is determined to assert itself. |
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| However, both countries had a well-established domestic fishing industry which is large enough to assert itself in the market. |
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| On the other hand, the prodemocratic lever advocated by many as one of the key advantages of budget support is struggling to assert itself. |
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| Democracy must assert itself over capitalism. |
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| Only in Quebec did a very different tradition assert itself. |
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| This retreat gave the government a chance to assert itself. |
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| Only recently has it begun to assert itself as an independent nation. |
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| Domestically, Canada's participation in the Francophonie highlights the linguistic duality of our country and helps the French fact in Canada assert itself and thrive. |
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| European governance must provide the European Union with the means to assert itself with a single voice in the world, notwithstanding our institutional arrangements and our three-pillar structure. |
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| In order to enable the European Union to assert itself and defend the interests of its members on the world scene, a common foreign and security policy is now provided for in the Treaty. |
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| These cost advantages will give Emmi the financial leeway to assert itself more strongly in the liberalised cheese market and, above all, to boost its sales abroad. |
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| More than ever, the federating role of the EBU must assert itself. |
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| In partnership with Leuven, Schréder helped to light the city, allowing it to assert itself and emphasise its identity in terms of tourism, culture and heritage. |
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| The above mentioned Vorarlberg climate campaign will assert itself more as a campaign for sustainable development in the future and above all it will support related activities in the communities. |
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| For the African personality to assert itself, it is necessary to rediscover the African cultural heritage to which an important place should be allotted in education. |
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| The only advantage we have is that, today, Europe can, as Mr Almunia and President Sarkozy have both stressed, assert itself firmly, make its voice heard on the international stage, take the reins and get a head start. |
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| If Europe is to assert itself as a power for global peace, it will need to speak to the outside world with a single voice, as well as possessing the capacity to get its way in matters of military and security policy. |
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| The Union needs to increase its ability to assert itself in the international arena and speak with a single voice in defence of its social, industrial and environmental interests. |
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| The former imperial master is able to assert itself in the region because of its pervading influence in the cultural, social, economic, military and political spheres. |
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| The unprecedented development that China is undergoing suggests that it will shortly assert itself as a world power both in the political and military field and in the economic field. |
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| It was an answer, he believed, that was already beginning to assert itself in his time. |
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| It will collaborate with him and the High Representative closely to strengthen the Union's foreign policy, so that the EU can assert itself more on the global stage, promoting peace and fairness. |
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| Moreover, Amman is the main meeting-point for expatriate Iraqis, some 400,000 of whom are reckoned to live there, some connected to the old regime and the insurgency, others to the new order struggling to assert itself. |
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| While new challenges are appearing, as shown again by the dramatic scenes in Ceuta and Melilla, I would like the ambition of new solidarity between the two shores of the Mediterranean to assert itself. |
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| Under the Guptas, a renewed Hinduism based on devotion rather than the management of ritual began to assert itself. |
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| In 2005 our bank will remain committed to a healthy blend of tradition and innovation, seeking to continue to assert itself as a supplier of first-class services in the Swiss private banking sector. |
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| They admit that the country was on the edge of chaos in 1990 after two particularly ineffective Presidents and had the need of an iron-fisted leader to assert itself as an independent state. |
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| Similarly, as periodical literature began to assert itself as a political force, a number of now anonymous poets produced topical, specifically occasional verse. |
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