Sentence examples for assert their hold over from inspiring English sources

Guild leaders have fought to assert their hold over larger swaths of what their letter described as "multinational conglomerates," including units that produce reality television without guild writers, even as company executives have insisted on keeping union authority confined to their traditional movie and television businesses.

It's here where Tea Party activists have expected to assert their influence over the party's nominating process.

Hezbollah, Syria and Iran "believe that escalating sectarian tensions will help them assert their authority over Lebanon," Ms. Rice said.

The best way of doing that is for democratically elected leaders to assert their authority over military ones.

The cartels have long used violence to assert their control over the drug routes from Colombia to the United States.

A new norm seems to have been set whereby both countries "take turns" to assert their sovereignty over the islands.

Because someone will assert their supremacy over me today.

Someone I know who doesn't like her own mother recently asked me why mine continued to assert such a hold over my brother and me, and I said the obvious: that her love, along with my father's, made us who we are.

Some men (and women, too) feel the need to assert their superior sports knowledge over female sports fans.

Industry researchers assert their findings, and government researchers assert theirs.

And citizens can assert their collective voice and influence to hold their governments and other stakeholders to account.