Sentence examples for asserted ourselves from inspiring English sources

"We took direction from the Europeans for a long time, until we asserted ourselves in thinking: how good can we make things here?" Mr. Rossetto said.

Chicanos have become too passive and have not asserted ourselves to changing things that have a direct impact on our community.

How do we assert ourselves without sounding entitled?

We, the undersigned black critics and black writers, here assert ourselves against such oversight and harmful whimsy.

At that stage we needed wickets to really assert ourselves on the South Africans in this game.

There is no doubt that if social workers come together we can assert ourselves professionally in a similar fashion.

Perhaps we have let our retiring nature get the better of us, and should learn to assert ourselves more.

We put together a good string and then came to Washington knowing that this was the game where we had to assert ourselves.

"We always knew that we could move up the gears and assert ourselves, and once we got it together we really started to play".

"We do not aim to assert ourselves; rather, we oppose arrogance with meekness; we forget the humiliations that we have endured".

But if we want to rescue British science from the current mess, we have to assert ourselves, enter the public and political arena, and fight for our vision.