1.   In the months since Iraqi troops stormed into the Kurdish enclave, the United States has been trying to reassert its influence on the ground.

2.   Late last year, the NRA sought to reassert its influence over the gun makers.

3.   The obvious way to regroup and reassert their influence is to unite behind a presidential candidate who can articulate their basic agenda and move it ahead.

4.   Some also see sharia as a way for Hausa northerners to reassert their influence, which has waned since military rule ended last year.

5.   But setting up the organization was also a way for Moscow to reassert its influence over once Soviet Central Asia.

6.   The power struggle under way in China, which has allowed the military to reassert its influence, undoubtedly explains in part the current problems.