Sentence examples for In the assertion of from inspiring English sources

"This is a real change in the assertion of presidential power".

British policy, he argued, had been both imprudent and inconsistent, but above all legalistic and intransigent, in the assertion of imperial rights.

Opening the event, the novelist Colm Toibin said: "Any historian writing about the slow and often gnarled progress of liberty in Ireland will see today as a central moment in the assertion of personal freedom in our country".

An unstable Iraq is increasingly divided among Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites whose aims diverge and whose interest in a united Iraq is probably smaller than their interest in the assertion of their own identities.

Until the mining boom, its claim to fame was a late-1940s three-year strike by nearby ranch workers that became a pivotal moment in the assertion of Aboriginal rights in Australia.

In nothing does Miller show his Americanism more than in the assertion of the right and the necessity of the individual to own his own life – and, beyond that, to reconcile himself with society.

Guns enable Violence, and the Republican assertion of the universal right to own guns is in effect the assertion of the right to engage in Violence.

But those lightning-bolt absolutes were in fact the assertion of their own artistic energies and the vaulting poetic ambitions that they were priming themselves to realize.

"We are seeing the government trying to roll back the space that has opened up in the last 10 years, particularly in terms of the assertion of rights.

In this way we experience, in our turn, the assertion of memory.

One sees this kind of self-deluding belief system at work in the assertions of some Eurosceptics that "Europe" cannot do without Britain.