Sentence examples for bid to assert the from inspiring English sources

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.

The brick pyramid is the museum's bid to assert its presence – we had "literally to fight to get some space for the needs of Tate" – and its material is intended both to cohere with the old power station and assert its difference.

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.

Some will take to it later in life in a bid to assert their maturity, but most will be champing at the bit as soon as they turn 16.

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

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.

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.

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.

The announcement is also the latest in a series of steps Mr. Bloomberg has taken in a bid to assert his influence nationally as his final term as mayor enters its twilight — and after he appears to have abandoned his own hopes of one day becoming president.

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

He arrived determined to assert the Justice Department's independence.