Sentence examples for assertion of rule from inspiring English sources

He became an enemy of Julius Caesar (though accepting a pardon from him at the end of a stretch of civil wars in 47 BCE), seeing the assertion of rule by first Caesar and then Marc Antony as fatal to the republic.

The system mocks the Supreme Court's once proud assertion of the rule of "one person, one vote".

This results in an assertion of British rule and a demand that he abdicate.

Hastings was so identified with the company's rule that he was the inevitable target for any such assertion of principle.

The sheer simplicity of the tool (a question on a piece of paper) understood alongside its deeper impact (the assertion of self-rule) seems almost incongruous.

"The available evidence was insufficient to support the assertion of an antidoping rule violation against these 95 athletes," Olivier Niggli, the agency's director general, wrote in the internal report, which was obtained by The New York Times.

More than that, the finding was an assertion of the principle that politicians cannot entirely ignore either science or the rule of law.

In my judgment, neither the observation nor the assertion undermines the interpretation of Rule 10b-5 that I support and that I have endeavored briefly to outline.

It is a rule of progressive politics that necessary and feasible reforms are often postponed because opponents master the details while supporters rely on passionate assertions of principle.

This in turn implied a political theology of personal monarchical rule and the assertion of a mystical bond between king and people, one that cannot be captured in any written constitution or body of explicit rules.

While Microsoft may not be the most sympathetic defendant, especially given its growing string of patent assertions, this rule helps patent thugs and opportunists of all kinds.