Sentence examples for assert some sort of 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.

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".

But he is confident that we are entitled to assert the existence of some sort of reality underlying the appearance of both minds and bodies, so that epistemological idealism must be accompanied by some sort of ontology, even if only an indeterminate one.

He asserts that there would be some sort of free-for-all in the valuation of property that could disappoint debtors, and that judges are incapable of making these types of decisions.

Recently, however, rebel supporters working in Cairo have asserted that the cousin's defection was some sort of ruse.

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.