Sentence examples for assert some kind of from inspiring English sources

5. Walton: On occasions like this, composers have a hard time devising music that seems deferentially ceremonial but still manages to assert some kind of musical identity of its own.

Behind closed doors and by phone, they groped for a solution and struggled to assert some kind of control over the situation as rank-and-file Republican members, especially in the House, grew more confrontational.

Walton: On occasions like this, composers have a hard time devising music that seems deferentially ceremonial but still manages to assert some kind of musical identity of its own.

And then fourth, over time as the colonies moved into war and as colonial governments really began to falter and run into complications — as the crisis really magnified — these Committees of Inspection were able to step into the void and assert some kind of centralized organized — hopefully — authority.

And when Pushkin's wife caught Nicholas's eye, the increasingly beleaguered poet was coerced into becoming a junior courtier so that she could attend all the right balls.The recklessness with which Pushkin fought duels and even gambled away some of his own manuscripts is no doubt directly attributable to the need to assert some kind of independence in such a repressive world.

"It's difficult to read the minds of other employers in the future to determine who might want to assert some kind of religious belief to deny this benefit to others," said Marcia Greenberger, founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center.

We have asserted some kind of responsibility.

The honor does not necessarily go to a new word but to one that that has asserted "some kind of prominence," according to a statement on the Oxford Dictionaries blog.

Several studies made over the past two centuries assert that the Dravidian languages had some kind of genetic relationship with the Ural-Altaic languages of northern Europe.

So I don't doubt that there will be some kind of villain asserting him or herself.

She does not hesitate to assert a kind of marital primacy over Stephen.