Sentence examples for assert some of from inspiring English sources

Plus, they let a plucky Mormon hero proudly assert some of the more eyebrow-raising minutiae of that religion with a Julie Andrews-like confidence.

McKenna's conference in Kona was an effort to assert some of the positive uses of psychedelics, and perhaps to tempt more creative people to emerge from the ordinary reality closet.

Well, no, but as Barker asserts, "some of the radical ways people challenge love doesn't necessarily involve swinging from chandeliers".

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.

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.

"It is a global struggle for freedom against those who seek to suppress it and seek to assert some form of religious tyranny; a threat in the name of God but [which] is truthfully the work of the devil," Turnbull said.

The deputy prime minister said the UK would not provide "active frontline military resources" to support any action taken against Isis forces but added that the UK would not stand in the way of "well judged, well targeted action to assert some semblance of order in Iraq".

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.

The states seem to assert some sort of property interest in having their investments dealt with under the bankruptcy code in the event of default.

But his supposed successor, Hu Jintao, may have a card or two to play as he struggles to assert some authority of his own.

He recorded the scenes not only to tell the story but also, perhaps, to assert some measure of control as the family fell apart under pressure from the police and the community.