Sentence examples for desire to assert from inspiring English sources

"I was prompted by a feeling of challenge and a desire to assert myself," he recalled.

A desire to assert control is a common factor among victims of eating disorders.

This desire to assert European independence reaches back to and beyond de Gaulle, and is felt across the political spectrum.

Do you think Facebook affects teens' desire to assert their independence or establish their identity apart from their families?

And, deep down, I was driven by a desire to assert the enduring power of the playwright.

"Quite frankly," Mr. Humphrey said, "it proceeds from the F.T.C.'s desire to assert what jurisdiction it has over the legal profession".

Sofia's arrival provokes repressed desires to assert themselves and new ones to materialize, not only in Marco and his father but also in a neighboring young woman and two of Marco's close male buddies, whose homosexual tendencies surface during a drawn-out Ecstasy-taking sequence (the most self-indulgent in Mr. Lelio's debut feature).

Having been a singer since the age of nine, Beyoncé expressed the restraint she felt by her responsibility as a role model for children, and, into her thirties during recording, desired to assert her creative freedom entirely.

But to assume that God cannot in God's infinite power, love, and wisdom save all persons if God desires?... Or to assert that there must be a hell if heaven is to be meaningful?..

But over that first year, as their relationship deepened, Mr. Rubinstein's desire for marriage began to assert itself.

And while of course the show is looking at male rage and frustrated desires and the need to assert oneself, Gil's arc isn't convincing as he grows from wimpy to quietly confident and then back to wimpy and then something entirely new at the end.