Sentence examples for asserting over from inspiring English sources

So the film has nothing to show but pretty buildings and pretty people; Mr. Brugger is reduced to asserting, over these images, that terrible things are happening in other parts of the country.

Baker asserts, over and over again, that even if everyone runs, we are never truly alone.

Youth has to behave irreverently; it has to take drugs, because of its fundamental belief in its own immortality, which it needs to assert over and over again.

It was much easier simply to assert over and over again that only the "worst of the worst" were housed at Guantanamo.

A beautiful aristocratic woman trapped by marriage in a bourgeois provincial Norwegian community, Hedda struggles to assert over her existence some of her father's command and control.

Speculation abounds that James has already made a decision and intends — as one rival executive asserted over the weekend — to sign with the Chicago Bulls.

How screen performers must crave the command that Bowie asserted over his own transmutations, and envy the fruits that he plucked from new technology.

As for the stalls … well, I've heard many people assert over the years that the floor of the Empire slopes up towards the stage.

Pup's self-medicating was, I'd venture, a chemical extension of the control he asserted over every other aspect of his life.

"Our sense of self and memory," he continued, "has to be asserted over every competing memory of the past, because it was so traumatic and painful".

Muslims sit in their living rooms, aghast as pundits assert over and over that Islam is not a religion at all but a political cult, that Muslims cannot be good Americans and that mosques are fronts for extremist jihadis.