Sentence examples for courageous assertion from inspiring English sources
When MacArthur insisted on extending the war to China and using nuclear weapons to defeat the communists, Truman removed him from command a courageous assertion of civilian control over the military.
Her courageous assertion on gay rights, at a time that it might have been politically costly to do so, is a clear and hopeful indication that Jamaica can do the right thing.
That's a courageous statement.
But on another, deeper level, it is an act of courageous self-assertion.
Our assertion is that the potential of creative, courageous, "scaled-up" active nonviolence is worth pursuing with more vigor and investment.
Yes, he might have accepted the assertion by one of Jones's attorneys, F. Hill Allen, that Jones had made a courageous, legacy-unraveling admission, had already been "pilloried, battered and dragged through the public square".
Murphy's reconstruction of the jaw-dropping confusion that effectively sent the Cubs to the World Series is lucid and hilarious, and justifies her assertion — baseball fans do love such judgments — that the game involved "perhaps the single most courageous act" ever by an umpire.
It's a fascinating and courageous book that makes connections between the two counties and dares to debunk some of the assertions made, and myths created, by the north's greatest ever historian, the Venerable Bede.
