Sentence examples for be used to assert from inspiring English sources

It also characterised Taiping as a rock, meaning it could not be used to assert territorial claims over surrounding waters.

If the two troopers stand trial, the picture will be used to assert that officers were encouraged to use race in selecting whom to stop, frisk and arrest, said Jack Arsenault, who represents Mr. Kenna.

It is harder to see what it comes to in the case of natural languages, where a single sentence type may be used to assert many different propositions with every outward show of candor and directness in as many different concrete conversational settings.

U.S. officials emphasize that the man-made islands do not constitute sovereign territory under international law and cannot be used to assert claims to territorial waters.

The important point is that this evidence should not be used to assert that these differences, or shared bits of "ancient" DNA, support the identification of multiple human "races".

If the language merely reflects your legal responsibility and that of the landlord as outlined above, it cannot be used to assert a waiver of the landlord's duty to you.

Spreadeagled poses in humans and animals have always been used to assert dominance, and are most often displayed by men.

Dueling jurisdictions want control of the case, and the new evidence was used to assert that Virginia was the best venue for the first trial of the pair, who could be eligible for the death penalty.

An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society.

The same analysis of subtle markers has been used to assert the existence of a single prehistoric Adam, a human who had a subtle mutation in the Y chromosome whose descendants left their compatriots in Africa and populated the rest of the Earth, possibly then returning to Africa as well.

Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society.