Sentence examples for been trying to assert from inspiring English sources

Our government had been trying to assert diplomatic immunity on Davis's behalf, enraging many people in Pakistan.

I had been trying to assert myself and find my voice, but the culture is such that women are invisible, they don't matter.

But recently he has been trying to assert greater influence over education, and through his office, he can generate considerable public pressure on the Regents.

Since Hamas took over Gaza after routing Fatah forces there in June, the authority led by Mr. Abbas, of Fatah, has been trying to assert its control in the West Bank.

Even Mr Karzai, who has increasingly been trying to assert his authority over Mr Fahim during the past few weeks, appears worried about his own security: soon after Mr Qadir's death, he replaced his Afghan security guards, provided by the ministry of defence, with American ones.There are glimmers of hope.

The seizure created a political challenge for the leadership of the disparate rebel movement that has been trying to assert tighter control of the loose-knit fighters under their command, and drew criticism from some antigovernment activists who said that taking the peacekeepers hurt their cause.

This man was trying to assert force on me.

There were complicated personalities involved, and I was younger and I was trying to assert myself.

"The court, the military and the executive are trying to assert themselves," he said.

Gennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, and another Yanukovych ally, is trying to assert authority.

Meadows was trying to assert that a black person wouldn't work for a racist.