Sentence examples for effort to assert their from inspiring English sources

In 1948, the Soviets cut off most road and rail access to the city's three western sectors, in an effort to assert their authority.

But some organizers said that in an effort to assert their free speech rights, they would plan demonstrations in areas other than those designated for that purpose.

In a further effort to assert their dominance in working-class loyalist districts, the UVF in North Down distributed posters and leaflets at the weekend in Bangor, County Down, with the names of people they accused of drug-dealing in the town.

The prologue introduces the various categories of American working people and gives an overview of their efforts to assert their interests, ranging from advocacy of land and labor reform and trade unionism on the part of skilled workers to ad hoc job actions and resistance on the part of slaves.

The confrontation highlights efforts by Democrats to assert their newfound control of the House of Representatives as a check on the Trump administration's power, and the administration's determination to attack congressional investigations decried by the president.

Macedonians, Serbs, and Bulgarians, however, have established their own autocephalous Orthodox churches in an effort to assert the legitimacy of their national identities.

In this brilliant exegesis of the movement of Islam beyond traditional borders and its unwitting westernization, Olivier Roy argues that Islamic revival, or "re-Islamization," results from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a non-Muslim context.

The professional life of some Westerners, and certainly many who move into management positions, is dedicated to strengthening the ego in an effort to assert and maintain control over their environment and their destiny.

BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Indonesia Limits Rural Relief Indonesia's military, in an effort to assert control, ordered restrictions on foreign aid workers, limiting their free operation to two main cities hit by the tsunami.

Mr. Medvedev's purge of the boards, depriving most of Mr. Putin's major allies of much of their leverage, was viewed as part of an effort to assert his authority and gain support among the elite to run for a second term as president in the March 2012 election.

The Congressional plan was nobody's darling, but it was an effort to assert some authority.