Sentence examples for actively asserting from inspiring English sources

Chinese and Japanese nationalists are actively asserting their country's claims over the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, sparking protests and a heated diplomatic row between the two countries.

Vietnam has emerged as China's main rival in the South China Sea, actively asserting sovereignty over both the Paracel and the Spratly groupings in their entirety and undergoing its own naval modernisation.

Noting reports of sporadic clashes between militias as well as vigilante revenge killings, many civilian leaders, along with some fighters, say the militias' shift from merely dragging their feet about surrendering weapons to actively asserting a continuing political role poses a stark challenge to the council's fragile authority.

Only with effective protection can workers actively assert and claim their rights.

We'd rather actively assert that we know what we know without knowing the whys and wherefores and let it go at that.

At least 82 of those groups, corporations or trade associations, have tried to actively assert their interests in government through lobbying, bidding for contracts, or other methods, the AP reported.

Load theory asserts that task performance under these conditions results in increased processing of irrelevant distractors because of the reduced ability to actively maintain the stimulus-processing priorities of the main task while working memory is loaded in another task.

Even though persons with dementia actively form and assert their personhood, some are not capable of doing so and need personhood to be bestowed on them especially in the face of progressive decline in dementia and if they do not experience relationships that support personhood.

GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief, Navi Pillay, urged Israel to reconsider legislation that could lead to the demolition of Bedouin villages in the Negev desert, asserting that Israel was actively pursuing discriminatory policies by forcibly displacing its Arab citizens.

Many will alter medication dosage up or down as they perceive the symptoms are changing (Pound et al. 2005), or actively minimize intake as a form of asserting control over a difficult illness (Conrad 1985; Cooper et al. 2007; Pound et al. 2005).

She then argues that women are actively struggling for equality among their male peers, later asserting that "women are coming strong".