'asserting dominance' is an appropriate and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a sentence such as, "The father bear was asserting dominance over the younger bears in the area."
Packs asserting dominance.
This is clearly a social process among group members who could adopt various strategies for resolving differences including asserting dominance, acquiescing, or some form of reciprocal sense making.
Yet so much about what epitomises Australian cricket – the perma-aggression, the compulsion to progress the game at all times, the obsession with asserting dominance – holds it back.
A mug shot doesn't simply provide information, it lures us into a drama in which we are given an intimate, Leviathan's-eye view of the state asserting dominance over an individual.
This is especially the case in highly charged matters, where the executive is asserting dominance and expanding power.
One person close to the campaign said that the meeting was Trump's way of "asserting dominance" over an industry that had been so cold to his candidacy.
Future studies exploring manipulations of status linked to changes in ependymin should determine if ependymin expression are reversible when dominants lose their position or lower ranking individuals assert dominance.
Even a gentle love song asserts dominance.
Fox especially has asserted dominance over CNN in the ratings.
Hopes for civilian leadership fade as the army uses the threat of terrorism to assert dominance.
Within months the Provisional I.R.A. was born and asserted dominance over the old Official I.R.A.
