Sentence examples for asserting pre-eminence from inspiring English sources

The Apollo lunar-landing successes, restoring national pride and asserting pre-eminence in space technology, reduced the immediate geopolitical pressures driving human space efforts.

Many Pentagon veterans agree that asserting pre-eminence doesn't take policymakers very far in grappling with how to respond to, say, North Korea's acknowledgment that it is now openly seeking nuclear weapons.

For some leaders, a conference is an apotheosis, a moment when they can assert national pre-eminence over cabinet and Commons alike.

Material monism, the metaphysics of science, asserts the pre-eminence of matter -- and dominates in our scientific and materialistic culture.

Some historians think that he wanted to prompt a confederation with the participation of all the Greek cities; others think he wanted to assert Athenian pre-eminence.

But one way and another, the chancellor has steadily, albeit unstridently, asserted Germany's pre-eminence in the European Union.

One of the emperor's first acts (after torturing to death those who had opposed him) was to reward Zheng He with the command of a great fleet that was to sail off and assert China's pre-eminence in the world.

How does it maintain its pre-eminence when it is so constrained?

Regional powers would vie for pre-eminence and assert their historic claims.

Swan Lake's pre-eminence as a ballet is not accidental.

In Scarface (1932), the gangster hero pursues what Robert Warshow calls "an individual pre-eminence". "The gangster's whole life is an attempt to assert himself as an individual, to draw himself out of the crowd, and he always dies because he is an individual" (Warshow 133).