Sentence examples for decided to assert from inspiring English sources

Antoine Kombouaré, sacked in late December, had already signed goalkeeper Nicolas Douchez and centre-back Milan Biševac when incoming sporting director Leonardo decided to assert his authority by bringing in his own men.

In response to several reports that Mormons had mistreated federal appointees, in the spring of 1857 President James Buchanan had decided to assert Washington's authority by replacing Brigham Young, Utah's territorial governor and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with his own, non-Mormon appointee.

One group thought that No 10 had decided to assert its authority after the launch of a new group of Eurosceptic Tory MPs, Conservatives for Britain, whose central demand for parliament to be given a veto over EU legislation was rejected out of hand by ministers.

And so things might have remained had Plook's nose not decided to assert itself – apparently driven mad by jealously at the amount of attention his handsome chin cleft had received over the decades – and called on the services of Potya's master of self-publicity, Straff Plak, an expert at crisis manipulation, news massage and media "extras" (which will appear on your bill simply as "sundries").

Without resolving the philosophical issues around the concept of cause, we simply decided to assert in Opportunity Makes the Thief that opportunity is an important cause of crime.

That's when Val decided to assert herself differently in the diagnostic process.

He decides to assert his existence by pursuing l'amour fou.

Act 3: in 2011, the Palestinian Authority – now a quasi-state – decides to assert itself and applies for Unesco membership.

Unable to fire the producer (who works for the studio, provider of their pay-cheque), they decide to assert their extraordinary individuality, and talent, by directing the film themselves.

With such a broad catch-all clause, Twitter may be put into an uncomfortable position with current or former employees when deciding to assert its IP assets.

The Olympics, with the medal counts and the wide range of sports that one country or another — the U.S.S.R., the United States, Cuba, or the two Germanies — had decided to focus on, to assert supremacy, became a full-on superseries of contrasting ideologies, sporting philosophies, and performance-enhancing-drug regimes.