Sentence examples for assert to himself from inspiring English sources

Vince was watchful and restrained, desperate not to flirt outside his off-stump (there was just a solitary aberration); meanwhile Ballance was almost skittish, eager to assert to himself as he flicked another ball through midwicket.

McCreedy can't eat; he looks across the table and sees "All three...waiting for him to respond, to act, to assert himself, to be.

He comes to realize that survival involves knowing when to assert himself and when to hold back, when to take the upper hand and when to yield to a power greater than himself.

Henceforth, participation in public affairs became the supreme occupation engaging the ambition of Greek man; it was no longer in athletics and elegant leisure activities that his valour, his desire to assert himself and to triumph, would find expression but rather in political action.

Will the President assert himself to safeguard conscience protections now?

With the determined general manager Peter Gelb in place, Mr. Levine will have to assert himself more forcefully to shape the overall artistic direction at the Met.

To assert himself he took to stealing postage stamps pinning them on the notice board marked with a black spot on the envelope and signed, "Christopher Blackspot strikes again".

Sometimes, as in the long, turning lines of glass, he manages to assert himself firmly enough to keep the old building at bay.

But at the top of the to-do list is Mr. Paterson's need to assert himself as a leader to be needed or feared — preferably both.

Gregory wants one-time England defender Barry, now under pressure for his place from Swedish signing Olof Mellberg, to start to assert himself more in the Villa defence.

He needs to continue to assert himself in internationals now that he is becoming more experienced and help the decision-makers around him.