Sentence examples for assert himself as from inspiring English sources

David Cameron is losing an opportunity to assert himself as leader of a wider European alliance.

It took two years for Nasser to assert himself as President after the revolution of 1952.

Cristiano Ronaldo continued to assert himself as Real Madrid's top man, scoring a hat-trick in Turkey last night as they thrashed Galatasaray 6-1.

State Senator Eric Adams of Brooklyn said he repeatedly urged the governor to impose order on his staff and assert himself as the state's most powerful political executive.

Woods teed off the back nine around midday Friday under a cloudless sky and seemed poised to assert himself as the player to beat.

Schocken never learned to speak fluent Hebrew, but he tried to assert himself as something more than a money pot for the Zionist movement.

Meanwhile, he hopes he has asserted himself as effectively as he did that day in Stockholm.

Nero (ruled 54 68) left administration to capable advisers for a few years but then asserted himself as a vicious despot.

1986 Peggy Sue Got Married He asserts himself as a viable romantic lead in Uncle Francis's time-travel romcom.

Shakespeare is supremely at the service of his characters, yet always, necessarily, asserting himself as a poet.

In 383 Maximus, a Spaniard who had been proclaimed emperor by the troops in Britain, asserted himself as ruler in the Western provinces (praefectura Galliarum).