Sentence examples for assert a leading role from inspiring English sources

As for Stonewall -- the event -- we now know that gay white men didn't assert a leading role; it was transgender women of color like Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson.

Michael Gove only recently asserted that universities should take a leading role in raising A-level standards.

Indeed, she explicitly rejected a leading role.

He was offered a leading role.

Her daughter had a leading role.

Actor in a leading role?

But she never had a leading role.

He quickly took a leading role.

"Probably for a leading role, yeah.

Just 13% starred a black actor in a leading role.

1) A promise to play a leading role in Europe.