Sentence examples for asserted my from inspiring English sources

With "meaningful due process" — limiting hearsay evidence, giving suspects greater latitude in picking their lawyers — the president asserted, "my administration is bringing our commissions in line with the rule of law".

What if I asserted my will and I was wrong?

"From the outset, I strongly asserted my innocence before God and under the law," he said.

Later I fantasized about some things I might have said to him in that moment, the various ways I could have rejected his money and asserted my own pride.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to negotiate a new 'normality' with my parents: I've asserted my new identity more slowly than with my friends, allowing them time to adjust, and share the news with other relatives, who - having less invested in my gender and public image - have been accepting.

"I probably could have asserted my jab a little bit more.

In speaking of the education of girls, Macaulay asserts, "my pride and my prejudices lead me to regard my sex in a higher light than as the mere objects of sense" (Macaulay 1790, 62).

That makes two installments in a row in which the Rink Rats' Canadian correspondent has pre-asserted my own feelings — incorrectly, no less.

By Ben McGrath May 21 , 2012That makes two installments in a row in which the Rink Rats' Canadian correspondent has pre-asserted my own feelings — incorrectly, no less.

In seeking to assert my moral superiority, I enabled Hannity.

"It was a way of asserting my gender," Long explains.