Sentence examples for assert some sort from inspiring English sources

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.

Catalans rallied and tried to assert some sort of authority on the game but they were helpless to prevent Hull KR's fourth try through Graeme Horne soon afterwards.

Every one of those people around me knew Radiohead, some extremely well, some just enough to blurt out a song name or two, to assert some sort of knowledge.

"We will keep fighting until all of the public records involving Pruitt's dealings with energy corporations are released ― both those for which his office is now asserting some sort of privilege against public disclosure and the documents relevant to our eight other Open Records Act requests".

We have asserted some kind of responsibility.

I think we really should not assert some new standard, in which you better have the tragic and confusing thing that happened totally sorted out within an hour after it happened.

"You can't just randomly assert some technology.

Regarding US relations with Iran during the cold war, Cheney argues that Obama's speech in Cairo "asserted there was some sort of equivalence between American support for the 1953 coup in Iran and the evil that the Iranian mullahs have done in the world since 1979".

The original Protestants assert a sort of individual liberty with respect to questions of faith against the paternalistic authority of the Church.

We need to remember this contrast, and clearly assert what sort of world we want.

When contacted by AFP to comment, I responded, "How can fascists attempt to assert any sort of moral authority over anything?" Really, people in fascist glass houses shouldn't throw stones.