Sentence examples for be able to assert a from inspiring English sources

For example, the report said, the lesbian partner of a child's biological mother may, in some circumstances, be able to assert a right to custody or visitation when the relationship between the women ends.

"I believe in order to be able to assert a defense of others there has to be a living human being existing independent of your client," Judge Richard Lyon Lamb of the Kalamazoo County Circuit Court, said to Ms. Kurr's lawyer.

If the joint distributions of covariates within different mixture components had little overlap, then we would be able to assert an approximate correspondence between the mixture components and identifiable subpopulations with biological meaning.

Recent studies revealed a more complex character, who despite having respected the social norms of the era, was able to assert a limited independence due to her strongly opinionated personality as well as her interest in learning, sciences and culture.

The Pictish kings of Fortriu were probably acting as overlords of other Pictish kings for much of this period and occasionally were able to assert an overlordship over non-Pictish kings, but sometimes had to acknowledge the overlordship of external rulers, both Anglian and British.

This paper contributes to the understanding of design trade-offs and requirements which are required to be able to assert that a particular Likert sample contains a specific amount of information concerning the specific research question that the survey is designed to answer.

"But the shareholder would be able to assert as a defense the co-op's failure to make the repair".

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act states that if a person has lived in a state for six months, that state may be able to assert jurisdiction in a custody case.

Although corporate sponsors often seek confidentiality for such agreements, graduate students working on particular projects, as part of the university's team, may be able to assert that they have a need to know the contents.

"The people of Europe must learn that only together will they be able to assert their civic model of a social state and the national diversity of their culture," wrote the philosopher Jürgen Habermas in a joint essay in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung with Peter Bofinger, a leading economist, and Julian Nida-Rümelin Nida-Rümelinvernment cultural adviser.

How will a parent in an abusive relationship be able to assert their independence if their partner controls the income?