Sentence examples for asserted the power of from inspiring English sources

Johnson asserted the power of intellect and self-will over mind and body.

As an ex officio member of the state supreme court, Wythe, in the case of Commonwealth v. Caton (1782), asserted the power of courts to refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws.

"At the time of Marbury v. Madison, the court knew that if they ordered Jefferson to turn over documents, the president would ignore them," he explained, referring to the 1803 case where the court asserted the power of judicial review without directly confronting the president.

Michael D. Shear, of the Times, wrote that the President had "asserted the powers of the Oval Office to reshape the nation's immigration system".

WASHINGTON — President Obama chose confrontation over conciliation on Thursday as he asserted the powers of the Oval Office to reshape the nation's immigration system and all but dared members of next year's Republican-controlled Congress to reverse his actions on behalf of millions of immigrants.

The president's popularity and the White House's determination to assert the power of the executive branch has turned the administration into a legislative juggernaut.

The centre-left bloc in Strasbourg is backing him too to assert the power of the elected parliament over the bureaucracy in Brussels.

It heralded a programme of radical public sector reform intended to assert the power of the consumer and bring market discipline into schools and hospitals.

Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the Treasury, had proposed the excise (enacted by Congress in 1791, the first national internal revenue tax) to raise money for the national debt and to assert the power of the national government.

One of its most notorious opinions asserts the power of states "as sovereign entities" to crack down on illegal immigration even if the federal government has not delegated them that power.

In Love Song, Kolvenbach asserts the power of love and the possibilities of the imagination, exhorting us to indulge in the joys of storytelling and unlock our potential for make-believe.