Sentence examples for chance to assert from inspiring English sources

This retreat gave the government a chance to assert itself.

She won as a write-in candidate and has seized the chance to assert her independence.

Long repressed, Egypt's Islamists understandably see the elections as a unique chance to assert their dominance.

Sir Hugh Orde, who would like to be Commissioner, saw his chance to assert himself.

Club Kira sometimes gives its customers an extra chance to assert their masculinity.

I don't see this game as being a chance to assert myself or look at it as an individual battle.

The standards committee's inquiry will drag on for several weeks, giving the Scottish National Party and the Conservatives plenty of chances to assert that New Labour, far from bringing progressive politics into Scotland, is aping the worst habits of Westminster.Even when the inquiry is over, the row will not be done with.

While the primary reason was to block exits for Mr. bin Laden, analysts said the deployment may provide Pakistan with the chance to finally assert control over the lawless frontier.

For wealthy white people, the Purge is a carnival of self-righteous violence and self-indulgence — a chance to viscerally assert that they are better than everyone else.

A famously hard-driving editor, Bradlee (Peter Strauss) sees the story as a chance for The Post to assert itself as a national paper of significance.

You needn't have put forth anything as hard-edged as an accusation, but your suspicions combined with the experience of her other clients could have produced a clearer picture and included something like due process and a chance for her to assert her innocence.