Sentence examples for asserted power from inspiring English sources

Others talked of arbitrary rules and detentions once the Taliban asserted power, after 2007, when they were teen-agers.

"There is power for a woman involved with a younger, less-educated, open man," she asserted, "power the way it has always existed for men in similar circumstances".

"In that history, there have been whole periods erased by various regimes," as they asserted power over the island, including the Qing dynasty from China, the Japanese colonialists and, finally, the Nationalists.

"Eighteen months after we first brought this challenge, GCHQ have come to court today to defend their asserted power to hack computers in the U.K. without individual warrants.

Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Franklin Roosevelt are three notable presidents who have been critical of this asserted power.

Later on Monday, the council asserted powers beyond even those enumerated in the new document.

And newly asserted powers have put strains on the international system.

Or is it just about asserting power?

It is, above all, a way of asserting power.

It is less about asserting power than blocking a perceived enemy.

Comments about physical appearance are an attempt to assert power over somebody.