Sentence examples for asserting their position from inspiring English sources

The British Medical Association, the RCN and other professional organisations are achieving change and asserting their position in the ongoing debate around funding cuts and austerity measures.

Iraq's Sunni and Shia populations contested the realms of power and engaged in a civil war during 2006 and 2007: the Shias emerged victorious, asserting their position as the primary force in the new Iraq as more than 90,000 Iraqis perished in post-conflict violence, compounded by the ascendancy of al-Qaida in Iraq, as well as a proxy war between Iran and the US.

So it's not as if the faces of the group aren't out there asserting their position.

Experts in conflict management point out that if the only communication that does occur consists of both sides asserting their positions and demanding that the other side take certain actions, little progress will be made.

Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now, said he noted that progressives in the Senate have been remarkably united in asserting their positions to Reid and indicating "that they won't be rolled by their more conservative members".

The United States and Russia have run ships through the passage without Canada's permission to assert their position.

On Friday, as the campaign came to a close, the Socialists asserted their position as the traditional rival of the conservative People's party (PP).

"I do see that trend developing, but it may take a little while before shareholders here really assert their position," Mr. Sakaguchi said.

She's repeatedly found evidence that our implicit gender perceptions mean that the advice that women stand up for themselves and assert their position strongly in negotiations may not have the intended effect.

Mr Clegg writes: "There is much to play for, but a real risk that this opportunity for modernisation will be lost if the hardliners are allowed to assert their position unchallenged.

Buildings put up to garner titles like "the world's tallest" or "the world's second-tallest" are usually erected in cities that have reached a critical juncture in their maturity, and which want to assert their position for the first time on the world stage.