Sentence examples for able to assert a from inspiring English sources

For example, the report said, the lesbian partner of a child's biological mother may, in some circumstances, be able to assert a right to custody or visitation when the relationship between the women ends.

"I believe in order to be able to assert a defense of others there has to be a living human being existing independent of your client," Judge Richard Lyon Lamb of the Kalamazoo County Circuit Court, said to Ms. Kurr's lawyer.

Recent studies revealed a more complex character, who despite having respected the social norms of the era, was able to assert a limited independence due to her strongly opinionated personality as well as her interest in learning, sciences and culture.

The Pictish kings of Fortriu were probably acting as overlords of other Pictish kings for much of this period and occasionally were able to assert an overlordship over non-Pictish kings, but sometimes had to acknowledge the overlordship of external rulers, both Anglian and British.

If the joint distributions of covariates within different mixture components had little overlap, then we would be able to assert an approximate correspondence between the mixture components and identifiable subpopulations with biological meaning.

This paper contributes to the understanding of design trade-offs and requirements which are required to be able to assert that a particular Likert sample contains a specific amount of information concerning the specific research question that the survey is designed to answer.

"But the shareholder would be able to assert as a defense the co-op's failure to make the repair".

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act states that if a person has lived in a state for six months, that state may be able to assert jurisdiction in a custody case.

Accepting his situation, he is able to assert himself through a polymorphic sexual abandon in which the lines between the sexes dissolve, to the delight of all.

"Finally, he was able to assert himself vis a vis the Revolutionary Guard...

It is a limitation of enquiry into HY that diagnosis cannot reliably be based on a single headache episode; unless a respondent is able to assert that HY was typical of a recurrent headache that has been diagnosed, its nature will not be known.