Sentence examples for best to assert from inspiring English sources

There are portraits of unknown black men and women who stepped into photography studios in their Sunday best to assert and showcase their new, postslavery self-images, along with well-known subjects like Frederick Douglass (who never smiled for photos) and Sojourner Truth, whose images were widely distributed for political purposes.

Mr. Morris does his best to assert the upper hand: the movie is as aggressively edited as one of Oliver Stone's political films, with mysterious jump cuts, portentous changes of camera angle and miles of unidentified newsreel clips breaking up the visual flow.

It is always best to assert your right to remain silent and not answer any questions.

The professor observes: "We see photos in which someone is lurking about the perimeter of a conversation, seemingly waiting for the best opportunity to assert themselves.

In an era when the power of the individual and the group grows daily, those governments that ride the technological wave will clearly be best positioned to assert their influence and bring others into their orbits.

"But I'm not going to do it myself". Not-going-to-do-it pretty well sums up Mr. Clinton's fumbling response to his best recent opportunity to assert himself as a major force in this three-cornered contest.

"So what we want to see is Scotland in Europe but also independent in Europe because that is the status that best allows us to assert and protect our national interest.

When Cyrus lit a joint at an awards ceremony, having already done her best in recent weeks to assert her conviction that she was the first woman in the world to ever have sex, the act of rebellion felt about as spontaneous as the lighting of the candle on the orange at a Christingle service in my mum's local church.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he had selected Mr. Duffy to be his running mate in the race for the governor's office, choosing a popular upstate politician and a former police chief best known for his effort to assert mayoral control over Rochester's schools.

It might not be the easiest path, but this is just one battle in their struggle to assert that the best solutions to climate change are those based on their traditional knowledge and artisanal practices.

Nestled snugly among the powerful, many of us are tempted to assert that the best always rise to the top -- and that those who do not reach the apex themselves are held back by lack of merit alone.