Sentence examples for assert power over others from inspiring English sources

The impulse to assert power over others is something we spend our whole lives trying to tame.

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

We found that such homophobic language is used to assert power over other students.

To the contrary, they continue to assert power over the Chinese people's reproductive choices.

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

Is an abusive spouse or partner controlling your money and finances as a way to assert power over you?

Giving a particular party in a case -- the party asserting power over the other -- the benefit of an irrebuttable presumption in favor of its legal position is the antithesis of impartial adjudication.

Cortines also faced constant political pressure from a mayor bent on asserting power over the district, and a variety of other outside forces.

There are parallels to some Zhuangist themes in Nietzsche: the skepticism about the adequacy of our conceptualizations of the world and of value; the warnings against conventional moralities as constricting, and the awareness of how the application of ethical judgment to others can be a means of asserting power over them (The Genealogy of Morals).

At the other end of the proposed Silk Road lies Kashgar in the Xinjiang province of China, where China has been strongly asserting power over its ethnic minorities.

Unfortunately, since the abuser asserts power over the partner, the abuser feels a certain sense of "righteousness".