Sentence examples for a means of asserting from inspiring English sources

Men fighting other men, for example, is a public demonstration of machismo, and while I'm reluctant to ascribe any kind of meaning to a cruel, meaningless act domestic violence is often used as a means of asserting dominance over one's partner or family.

It was intended as a means of asserting queer presence and identities.

America and China, in particular, see it as a means of asserting technological prowess.

Mexico no longer reflexively counters American diplomacy as a means of asserting its own sovereignty.

Bodies claiming to represent minority communities do tend to use perceived threats as a means of asserting their authority.

Public monuments in colonial Nairobi were visual links to the British empire, and served as a means of asserting imperial power.

All four revolutions created paradigm shifts; yet none, as Boot demonstrates, seems to have conferred on any state or alliance a permanent means of asserting, and protecting, its military superiority.

When Smith declared in his 1993 speech A Citizen's Democracy that "Britain is alone amongst major western European nations in not laying down in law the basic rights of its people, and in not giving its people a direct means of asserting those rights through the country's courts," he was responding to calls for a bill of rights.

It sees the carriers as the best means of asserting its position as a leading maritime force, and has sacrificed much of the fleet to ensure they will be built.

Rhythm is his asset, his best means of asserting control; here, the bassist Tony Garnier and the drummer George Receli dug in but followed his lead.

Rhythm is his asset, his best means of asserting control; the bassist Tony Garnier and the drummer George Receli dug in but followed his lead.