Sentence examples for asserting the power from inspiring English sources

LOS ANGELES — Asserting the power and versatility of the new Nashville, the country-pop trio Lady Antebellum was the big winner at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, which were presented on Sunday night at the Staples Center arena here.

Watching Lyndsey Turner's beautiful revival, I was struck by how a play, first seen in 1979, contradicts our theatre's trend towards ever greater visual sophistication by asserting the power of the word.

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

At the time, the Court was striking down one law after another and had asserted the power to declare constitutional amendments unconstitutional.

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.

First, this is indeed a "novel" issue for the Supreme Court: Never before has the federal government asserted the power to require people to engage in economic activity under the guise of regulating commerce.

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.