Sentence examples for eager to assert from inspiring English sources

Some question whether China's middle class is eager to assert itself.

Surprisingly few seemed eager to assert themselves as daughters of Zeus so outwardly.

The photograph evoked the busyness of a bold metropolis eager to assert itself as the world's pre-eminent city.

At the United Nations' outset, diplomats eager to assert its global authority glommed on to the phrase.

He rests alone, which also seems appropriate for a maverick artist who was always eager to assert his independence.

They are eager to assert their belief in "American exceptionalism," while at the same time describing in vivid detail the gloomy conditions under which voters suffer every day.

All hail from the ideological Revolutionary Guards and seem no less eager than he is to assert Iran's nuclear "rights" or turn Iran into the great power that bested America.

Tehran is clearly eager to use the meeting to assert its rising influence and claim the respect it insists it has been too long denied.

Once involved, Sudell was eager for the embryonic League to assert primacy in relation to other competitions, joining with J. J. Bentley to propose that "The clubs forming the League shall support each other and bind themselves to carry out in the strictest sense the arrangements for matches between them, and not allow them to be cancelled on account of any cup competition or other matches".

Republicans continued to assert that those delays were intentionally inflicted on the traveling public by a White House eager to press its political point.

Congress needs to assert its legislative supremacy.