Sentence examples for approval to assert from inspiring English sources

A top State Department official on Tuesday accused China and Russia of abandoning international talks on cybersecurity and seeking United Nations approval to assert greater control over the Internet in their countries.

An interim government led by a tough, militarily-connected man chosen by the UN with America's approval is seeking to assert itself even before the Americans formally hand over political power at the end of this month.

It seems highly plausible that Trump launched the missiles because he wanted to raise his low approval ratings, and to assert that he is not in Putin's pocket.

But the agency and the corps seemed to raise doubts about those standards as well, saying in their new guidance today that "field staff should seek formal project-specific HQ approval prior to asserting jurisdiction over isolated non-navigable intrastate waters based on other types of interstate commerce links".

As we shall see, while psychiatrists endorsed rating scales in order to structure practices and acquire social approval, they simultaneously stressed their limits in order to assert the need for clinical acumen and to retain control over them.

They can make purchases on their own (without parental approval) and they want to use this purchasing power to assert their identity.

In cases involving isolated non-navigable waters located within a single state, the guidance said, formal approval from the agency's headquarters would now be required to assert federal jurisdiction.

It is 'impossible to assert with any degree of assurance that congressional failure to act represents' affirmative congressional approval of the courts' statutory interpretation...

2363, 2371-2372, n. 1, 105 L.Ed.2d 1989(1989) ("It is impossible to assert with any degree of assurance that congressional failure to act represents affirmative congressional approval" of judicial interpretation of a statute) (internal quotation marks omitted).

Activists will have greater standing to assert that Walmart's lack of action on other issues reflects the company's tacit approval.

The diplomatic dispute underscored the increasing willingness of Egyptian activists to assert muscular foreign policy demands, as well as to repudiate alliances cultivated over decades without public approval by autocratic rulers.