71.   Shops remained shuttered and tensions increased as the Taliban asserted its authority and decreed its own restrictive brand of Islamic rule.

72.   Tendulkar dispatched paceman Andrew Flintoff to the cover and midwicket fence to assert his authority over the England bowling.

73.   The school could assert its authority when students violate its law.

74.   Wiranto asserted his authority by personally confirming the sacking of a Suharto son-in-law from a key army post, in addition to defusing the standoff with students.

75.   Wiranto asserted his authority by sacking a Suharto son-in-law from a key army post, in addition to defusing the standoff with students.

76.   Deutch also noted that regional leaders in Russia were asserting their authority in a development that has left Moscow with less power.

77.   England asserted their authority on the third day of the second Test on Saturday after claiming the major Indian wickets of Sachin Tendulkar and Mohammad Azharuddin before lunch.

78.   Earlier, Kimiko Date became the first player to reach the second-round -- setting an example to other seeded women, who all asserted their authority.

79.   Then Cantona scored from a freekick and hit home a penalty, after Poborsky had been fouled, in the closing minutes to even further assert their authority.

80.   They explained that as China becomes more powerful over the years, chauvinistic elements here who share a reflected strength may be tempted to assert their authority.