He pledged that the government, with the help of American forces, would reassert control over many of the areas that have slipped into insurgent hands.

However, Georgia's post-revolutionary government of President Mikheil Saakashvili managed to avoid bloodshed and with the help of Adjaran opposition reasserted its supremacy.

Despite an attempted intervention by the Yugoslav National Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija - JNA), the Croatian government successfully reasserted its control over the town.

With that accomplished, the 22-year-old resolution authorizes United Nations peacekeepers to be deployed across southern Lebanon to help the Lebanese government restore peace and security in the area and reassert its lost authority.

Dasaratha was able to main some command of the home provinces, but, the distant governments, including areas in the south, broke away from imperial rule and reasserted their independence.

Alarmed by the resulting exodus of some 200,000 Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo, the government of the Republic of Serbia reasserted its authority over Kosovo under a new constitution last year.

But as the Russian government reasserts its control over strategic industries - particularly oil - it is not letting up on the rule.

After Portugal's bloodless revolution in 1974, factory discipline declined and production dropped until the government reasserted control two years ago.

In 1977, in an attempt to avoid losing control of Walvis Bay to a possibly hostile SWAPO-led government, the South African government reimposed direct rule and reasserted its claim of sovereignty based on the original annexation.