Sentence examples for actions to assert from inspiring English sources

He offered to provide patrol boats to the Philippines and Vietnam.Then the next morning, Chuck Hagel, America's secretary of defence, used his speech to accuse China of "destabilising, unilateral actions" to assert its claims in the South China Sea.

Anyone who recalls the Jim Crow society of the American South in the 1950s knows the real purpose of such actions: to assert and make visible by force the superiority of one caste of people over another, and to drive the inferior people from places of value.

Two years after taking legal action to assert their rights as a married couple, they are paying a price when they pay their taxes.

But that doesn't change the fact that men, and whites, are born with tremendous advantages, and hardly need collective action to assert their rights.

"The city will be taking legal action to assert our right to the Tavern on the Green trademark," said Connie Pankratz, a spokeswoman for the city's Law Department.

The deputy prime minister said the UK would not provide "active frontline military resources" to support any action taken against Isis forces but added that the UK would not stand in the way of "well judged, well targeted action to assert some semblance of order in Iraq".

Disraeli made the Conservatives the party that most loudly supported both the Empire and military action to assert its primacy.

Yet they now possess "the authority to participate as a party in a court action and to assert legal arguments in defense of the state's interest in the validity of the initiative measure when the public officials who ordinarily would assert the state's interest in the validity of the measure have not done so".

Beauchamp requested a stay of execution so that he could write a justification of his actions; he continued to assert his avenging his wife's honor.

[ 25] The most notable action to date, to assert the waiver of Article 31(f), has been by the Thai government which authorised the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation in November 2006 to manufacture generic versions of efavirenz (Stocrin®) until 2011, and to import generic versions from India until domestic production comes into line [ 26, 27].

Retail shares were the latest to be infected by the corporate action bug, with traders continuing to assert that a deal may be on the way for Austin Reed, up another 131C2p to 1121C2p.