Sentence examples for bid to assert from inspiring English sources

The move by the European Parliament was partly a bid to assert new powers to decide issues concerning European security jointly with E.U. governments.

The move by Parliament was partly a bid to assert new powers to decide issues concerning European security jointly with E.U. governments.

Hard as nails, he eats peach slices straight off a knife and collars Rachel's original bodyguard with a chair in a bid to assert his authority.

Chief among his complaints was a failed effort on Saturday to hand over control of Bagram Prison to the Afghan government, which the president views as crucial in his bid to assert national sovereignty.

This may be a bid to assert the show's importance, but "The King and I" is already important — delightful and moving and complicated — and creating a larger visual field doesn't really change our response to it.

While high-profile attacks in Iraq are down some 60percentt according to Iraqi and U.S. military reports, Al Qaeda in Iraq, even in its death rattle, is still unleashing violent sleeper cells in a bid to assert itself.

Armed Iraqi groups have mounted ever more deadly and spectacular assaults on fellow Iraqis, in bids to assert political and territorial dominance.

This is a bid, I think, to assert the show's importance.

During his presidential bid, Duterte promised to assert the Philippines's claims.

A bid by Kabul in early 2015 to assert control by imposing an embargo on the mining and transport of lapis had had a limited effect, the report said, with stones continuing to flow into the neighbouring Panjshir valley.

That gave Bush the second chance of the night to assert his desperately struggling bid for the Republican nomination.