As a country governed by law, we were asserting the superiority of our system to others governed by dictatorship.
In asserting the superiority of federal power over the states, Chief Justice Marshall stated: "The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people.
Tracts in the 1930s admired Hitler, asserted the superiority of the Hindu race, and denounced opponents as traitors.
His enthusiasm for traditional Japanese art often led him to assert the superiority of Oriental over Western art.
As a goddess sprung from the head of her father, she asserts the superiority of the male.
In the Essai Gobineau asserted the superiority of the white race over others and labeled the "Aryans"—i.e., the Germanic peoples as representing the summit of civilization.
Ultimately, our aim should not be to assert the superiority of the physical world over the virtual, but to make them work together.
In fact, when he announced his adherence to the thesis of the "created Qurʾān" in 827, al-Maʾmūn also asserted the superiority of ʿAlī over the other Companions of the Prophet.
CAN Tony May, who for two decades asserted the superiority of the aristocratic food of Italy at San Domenico, his staid dining temple on Central Park South, now find happiness by the park that made Shake Shack famous?
Moreover, some lesbian feminists asserted the superiority of women's ways of living, suggesting that women who challenged society's views of male supremacy could discover more egalitarian and less superficial ways of relating to each other.
But, second, I said, as we passed the new Whitney, which loomed, in the advancing twilight, like a beached ocean liner made of steel and glass, these stories are really opportunities for the authors to assert the superiority of their own art, of literature, over painting.
