Sentence examples for an opportunity to assert himself from inspiring English sources

David Cameron is losing an opportunity to assert himself as leader of a wider European alliance.

"But I'm not going to do it myself". Not-going-to-do-it pretty well sums up Mr. Clinton's fumbling response to his best recent opportunity to assert himself as a major force in this three-cornered contest.

Leno arrived in the summer from Bayer Leverkusen for €22m (£19.2m), a club-record fee for a goalkeeper but, unlike his expensive contemporaries at Liverpool and Chelsea, he had to bide his time before the opportunity to assert himself in the team presented itself.

But Kerry A. Lawrence, who, like Mr. Hynes, is a former prosecutor turned defense lawyer, said he felt that Judge Parker was careful and that Mr. Cason had had plenty of opportunities to assert himself.

What some saw as an opportunity to assert their constitutional freedoms, others took as an affront.

And in all this, they see an opportunity to assert their authority.

Not since 2007 has the government had such an opportunity to assert itself in Mogadishu.

And that is where House Republicans see an opportunity to assert their influence, with a real possibility of a stalemate.

In Mr. Bennett's case it is also an opportunity to assert his aesthetic creed: a belief in the traditional values embedded in popular standards.

In Paris it is seen more as an opportunity to assert French influence in establishing a European defence identity independent of the American presence that dominates Nato.

And Mario Monti, the recently appointed head of the European Commission's competition authority, was widely believed to be looking for an opportunity to assert Continental independence.