Sentence examples for asserting some from inspiring English sources
But in politics it coasts dangerously close to the rocks of nationalism, asserting some national superiority.
"He's not going to let that opportunity on Nov. 13" — when Congress returns — "come and go without asserting some leadership".
"This is not a question of asserting some special privilege," the United States ambassador, John D. Negroponte, said today.
Her friends say this is a coping strategy - a means of asserting some power over a situation over which she has no control.
"I look at media and it tells me that I am a male, and as a male, I am only supposed to want to acquire things, gain power, have strength that has to do with being active and asserting some sense of will," he continues.
Among other things, China is asserting some absurd territorial (and hence potential oil-drilling) claims in the South China Sea based on its control over a few reefs and rocks, several of which it grabbed from South Vietnam in the waning days of the Vietnam War when America was too sick and tired of the region (and too solicitous of its new China ties) to do anything about it.
We have asserted some kind of responsibility.
"You can't just randomly assert some technology.
"He wants to assert some leadership," one of these people said.
To go out there, fight back and assert some authority was hugely important.
And that, he says, is a way for DL men to assert some power.
