Sentence examples for asserted desire from inspiring English sources

The critic Geoffrey O'Brien has argued: "The Lady Vanishes is the film that best exemplifies Hitchcock's often asserted desire to offer audiences not a slice of life but a slice of cake".

None asserted a desire to carry their weapons outside of their homes.

Most have repeatedly asserted their desire for democratic government respectful of Islamic values, rather than government by mullahs on the failed Iranian model.

Greenblatt continued to expound on that approach in Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (1987)—in which he famously asserted his desire to "speak with the dead" authors he studied.

The president asserted his desire to use Simpson-Bowles as a framework for a Grand Bargain in his speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Given Trump campaigned on a platform of foreign policy isolationism and protectionism, the Australian government has moved quickly to publicly assert its desire that the US remain engaged in the region.

But Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, gleefully says that Mr. Cheney felt compelled to assert his desire to stay on the ticket to quell whispers in Republican circles that Mr. Bush should dump him because his ties to Halliburton were becoming a liability.

On the other hand, dating presents an opportunity for women to assert their desire for equality and to move away from 1950s thinking.

So, as some assert their desire to make America "great" again by reverting to a time long past and gone, Hidden Figures pulls back the curtain and reminds us of how oppressive those days were for everyone.

All of this happened, in other words, despite strong opposition and powerful pressure from a Washington eager to contain China and regularly asserting its desire to "pivot" militarily to Asia to do so.

To make a choice would be to assert his desires, and Mark doesn't know what he wants.