Sentence examples for assert power from inspiring English sources

Comments about physical appearance are an attempt to assert power over somebody.

Covered-up flesh and sturdy fabrics assert power, putting the wearer on an equal footing with suited men.

Those critics fear that as the Shiite religious groups assert power, Iraq could be steered toward an Iranian-style theocracy.

It's about people seeking to assert power over other people, and this is one way they do it".

In lieu of full sovereignty, the revolutionaries seemed determined to retain the one place where they had managed to assert power.

It is interesting that the impulse to assert power most often seems to take precedence over a desire to claim innocence.

Or is it just about asserting power?

It is, above all, a way of asserting power.

It is less about asserting power than blocking a perceived enemy.

Compelling subordinates to lie for him is another of the ways in which Trump asserts power.

Others talked of arbitrary rules and detentions once the Taliban asserted power, after 2007, when they were teen-agers.