Sentence examples for assert firmly from inspiring English sources

"We must assert firmly that society is against sex education in the schools".

In other words, can anyone assert firmly that there is nothing else to discover about the function of a protein?

"A fine work is wedded to the time it takes to perform or read it," he asserts firmly in 1959.

Of this latest role, he asserts firmly that "nothing about my character Chris comes from my own life, everything is taken from the novel".

His friends ("I have very few friends," he asserts firmly, in a typical style of testing intimacy by keeping it at bay) tend to say of him fondly that he is impossible.

Sometimes, as in the long, turning lines of glass, he manages to assert himself firmly enough to keep the old building at bay.

I'm afraid it's impossible, Mary asserted more firmly.

Then you can pepper your next post- Paris cocktail banter with all sorts of deliciously refined-sounding names that will firmly assert your Parisian cultural credentials.

But the use of civilian boats is part of a different goal — to better defend and more firmly assert sovereignty over China's coast, its territorial waters and the exclusive economic zones that extend 200 nautical miles off the coast.

And I firmly assert that unless you're partaking in snow removal or some sort of competitive dog sledding, these fugly sheepskin boots have no place in civilized society.

She loses herself in moral dilemmas, not being able firmly to assert herself or let her interests count, but always places the needs of others first.