Sentence examples for assert its will from inspiring English sources

Moreover, since the United States was a permanent member of the Security Council, any compromises to our national sovereignty were more than outweighed by the tremendous benefits of having a legitimate international legal order through which, as a superpower, it could assert its will.

America must assert its will if it is to remake Iraq.

No community can assert its will by force and, therefore, sectarian disputes have to be resolved politically.

According to Bush's philosophy of government, America's ability to assert its will for the greater good around the world is enormous.

Indeed, by forcing the government to invoke the rarely used Parliament Act, which allows the Commons to assert its will over the Lords, the Tories could keep hereditaries in their ermine until the summer of 2000 and clog up the next parliamentary session.Giving hereditary peers the boot is not the only constitutional change likely this year.

Needless to say, the principal fault in both cases did not lie with officials – the failure of No 10 to assert its will over two obstreperous secretaries of state was a far greater problem – but they both illustrate the mismatch between the need for swift action and the reality of constipated decision-making within Whitehall.

In Baghdad, nearly 100 miles north, the group has been more occupied with the here and now, imposing its influence on Iraq's fractured political scene and steadily asserting its will throughout the city's Shia heartland suburbs.

In contrast, an employer should consistently assert its employment-at-will rights and be thoughtfully consistent in providing a non-retaliatory reason for an employee's termination.

Sometimes a film will assert its significance by becoming so popular that it can't be ignored (like the "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and "Dragon Tattoo" franchises), sometimes by pushing topical buttons (like "The Help" or "Margin Call") and sometimes by being so weird as to compel intense arguments for and against ("The Tree of Life," most obviously).

It seems that too quickly the Islamists subscribed to the idea, that their complete control over Egypt was assured, as they believed that the military lost its will to assert its influence in the country.

"Through its board members the state will assert its position as a shareholder," the spokesman said, according to Reuters.