Sentence examples for assert a greater from inspiring English sources

Both the Pentagon and the F.B.I. have moved in recent months to assert a greater role in spying operations, particularly those related to terrorism and weapons proliferation.

Such deference is unlikely to occur in elected democracies, where efforts by scientists to assert a greater political role may just reinforce partisan battle lines.

In a 33-point proposal spanning subways, buses, roads, ferries and other parts of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the mayor appeared to be trying to assert a greater role for the city in mass transit even though the authority is a state entity.

China has sought to assert a greater voice in international financial affairs in preparation for Thursday's summit of G20 countries, expressing concern about the U.S. dollar's weakness as a consequence of Washington's spending binge, prompting U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to go on the defensive last week.

These close relationships enabled the society to assert a great deal of control over the yearbook's direction in future decades.

The judge, William Quarles of Federal District Court, dismissed the newspaper's lawsuit, saying the paper wrongly asserted a greater right to access to government officials than private citizens have.

Claudia Tebaldi, a scientist with an organization called Climate Central that seeks to make climate research accessible to the public, said she felt that the paper was on solid ground in asserting a greater overall likelihood of heat waves as a consequence of global warming, but that the finding was not new.

On a newspaper where too many assumed that the solutions to problems were simple – reunite the divided island, withdraw, and all would be well – John asserted a greater complexity, insisting that Protestants too had rights that a paper with the Guardian's liberal traditions ought to respect.

There is just enough acid in the Petit Chapeau version to make it, as Mr. Johnnes asserts, a great aperitif.

Europeans assert that a greater "political horizon" must be provided for the Palestinians in terms of concrete terms and a timetable for a final status agreement, as an inducement to take tough measures to rein in militants.

But what if we assert (with a great dramatic flourish) that your first associations should be 'lifesaving' and 'game changing' "?