Sentence examples for asserted its own from inspiring English sources
The United States was also responsible for defining the zones claimed by Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, a legacy of the American military role played in the region since the Cold War, and an underlying source of resentment in China that perhaps helps to explain why it has asserted its own zone.
Like Doctor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's great novel, not only has our creation asserted its own agency, but it now wields its power over us.
The church recognized the powers of the emperor as protector of the church and preserver of the unity of the faith and asserted its own authority over the spiritual domain of preserving Orthodox doctrine and order in the church.
The case was vigorously litigated by Google, which ironically asserted its own privacy rights in responding to discovery.
And isn't it really true of all ekphrastic literature, fiction and poetry, that even when it claims to be describing or praising a work of visual art it is in fact asserting its own superiority?
It would allow Congress to assert its own voice on Iraq policy, after falling short of that goal in most such votes throughout the year, he said.
Samsung retaliated by asserting its own patents against Apple, and from there it's been a back-and-forth struggle.
In addition, the EU should back the guarantee of Russian language rights in Ukraine - not because Moscow is demanding it, but because the West badly needs to assert its own values in the face of the growing power of neo-fascist groups in Ukraine.
It is also pointed out that Jain epistemology asserts its own doctrines, but at the cost of being unable to deny contradictory doctrines.
That concern is resurrected in contemporary robo-lore, in which it is not the man but the machine that asserts its own particularity.
