Sentence examples for assert its own from inspiring English sources

It would allow Congress to assert its own voice on Iraq policy, after falling short of that goal in most such votes throughout the year, he said.

In addition, the EU should back the guarantee of Russian language rights in Ukraine - not because Moscow is demanding it, but because the West badly needs to assert its own values in the face of the growing power of neo-fascist groups in Ukraine.

And yet on days like this Test cricket can be relied upon to assert its own glacial powers of seduction.

(For Fried, the audience is implicated in theatre, while pure art rises above the audience to assert its own hermetic integrity).

The street protests that began the Arab Spring have become destructive means for each side to assert its own primacy on the national stage.

The Florida Legislature has to be ready to assert its own constitutional prerogative against the Florida courts' intervention in the electoral process.

The United States was also responsible for defining the zones claimed by Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, a legacy of the American military role played in the region since the Cold War, and an underlying source of resentment in China that perhaps helps to explain why it has asserted its own zone.

It is not asserting its own beauty – in fact, quite the opposite.

Like Doctor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's great novel, not only has our creation asserted its own agency, but it now wields its power over us.

And isn't it really true of all ekphrastic literature, fiction and poetry, that even when it claims to be describing or praising a work of visual art it is in fact asserting its own superiority?

Samsung retaliated by asserting its own patents against Apple, and from there it's been a back-and-forth struggle.