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Now do they have to take the next step and assert control over their life stories?

Especially if the political will to assert control over the city by those in power is not there.

Another attempt to assert control of her own life story has met with less success.

But they disagree over how far the county should go to assert control.

So far their efforts to assert control have been of little consequence.

When the national governments can get up here easily, they'll assert control.

Tobacco use appears to be a way to assert control.

Both men used a fiscal crisis to assert control over city government.

The statement appears to be an attempt to assert control.

First and foremost, many say, will be asserting control over the army.

These organizations asserted control over the entire national economies of the two countries.

But she asserted control, taking a full minute to get the parts into the desired order.

The current government, formed in 2004, has struggled to assert control.

She tried to assert control while the girl was physically too weak to act.

The second option would be for Pakistan's military to assert control over the region.

It is a choice, another tool by which women are able to assert control over their bodies.

National security is a method whereby the government can assert control over foreign policy.

The dismissal was seen as an attempt by the government to assert control over the military.

Nobody is strong enough to really assert control," she said.

Its members, former Soviet republics, asserted control of military forces on their soil.

However, Libya's rebel forces have yet to assert control over the entire nation.

The doctor in her began to assert control again.

No one knows whether the commissioners in this case tried to assert control of their own procedure.

Clarke was determined to assert control but took no real account of the position his side were in.

Local authorities resent efforts by the central government to assert control.