Sentence examples for as a way of asserting from inspiring English sources
Eventually he returned to landscape painting, largely as a way of asserting his Chinese roots.
Victims' families demand them as a matter of course, perhaps as a way of asserting that their tragedy is as meaningful as the previous one.
Some outsiders believe it maintains an excessively tight policy as a way of asserting its independence, which it won at around the time deflation took hold.
More than half of the group present, she said, hectored her about how she should attack Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as a way of asserting her relevance.
It was devised by the Women's Co-operative Guild as a way of asserting that war commemorations should honour civilian victims as well as soldiers, and should somehow be combined with a pledge to avoid such terrible bloodshed in future.
Since commercial success and punk credibility are virtually antithetical, the new pop-punk bands embrace themes of emotional distress as a way of asserting their authenticity and musical lineage.
"The marketers have brainwashed people to be afraid of their own smell, which is supposed to be something natural, something that as a living creature is a way of asserting I am here," Mr. Fujita said.
It would apply this requirement to votes on changes in the Senate rules as well, and it would declare that "the rules of the Senate shall continue from one Congress to the next Congress unless they are changed as provided in these rules" — which seems a way of asserting and nullifying a principle in a very few words.
Arendt's attitude toward Eichmann himself is simply dismissive: her whole characterization of him as a banal bureaucrat, oblivious of the evil he does, is a way of asserting his human and intellectual inferiority.
