Sentence examples for asserts around from inspiring English sources

The patrol by the USS Lassen was the most significant US challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China asserts around the islands in the Spratly archipelago and could ratchet up tension in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

Democracy, I wrote during the last presidential go-around, "asserts that public policy is everyone's business, and that the concerns of even the most financially and socially marginal citizens are equal to those of the most elite.

Dewandre agrees that there simply may not be enough women to go around but asserts, "We don't want only to mirror the situation".

In "This Time Around", Jackson asserts himself as having been "falsely accused".

It asserts that players around the world entrusted Full Tilt with $390 million in gambling money, and that the company promised to keep those funds in secure accounts.

It galumphs around, asserting its modernity in torrents of brass.

In the year 2000, the Geological Survey asserted that around 47 billion barrels of oil lie off Greenland's shores, but eight years later it slashed that figure to a relatively meager 18 billion.

"This is a clear respite from the theme that Obama had lost control," said David Rothkopf, a former Clinton administration official who wrote the definitive history of the National Security Council, the organization American presidents have used for 60 years to assert authority around the country and the world.

More generally, it is also unclear why North Korea is currently so focused on asserting itself around the NLL.

Learn to assert yourself around the "food-pushers.

Instead of avoiding it, find constructive ways to cope and to assert yourself around others.