Sentence examples for fail to assert from inspiring English sources

Individual moments — this line break, that bit of syntax — fascinate even when individual poems fail to assert themselves as memorable.

They fail to assert that Islam is by now a Swiss and a European religion and that Muslim citizens are largely "integrated".

There is still a real danger that opponents will choose to "stay and fight", and that Rowan Williams and the leadership of the Church of England will fail to assert their authority.

Built in layers of thin washes, chevrons of bright parallel lines in oil pastel, and strings, grids and explosions of glowing spray-painted nodules, as well as blocked-out areas and bands, these works are often topped with patchy, scraped-down areas that try but fail to assert a strictly vertical plane.

But after a year that will be remembered for the devastation wreaked by hurricane Sandy, flooding in China and, of course, here at home, and raging wildfires in Australia, it's simply baffling – and irresponsible in the extreme – for the leader of the world's sixth-biggest economy to fail to assert his commitment to leading on climate change.

"Organized psychiatry has failed to assert itself," he said.

They complain the White House has not consulted enough and failed to assert leadership.

Those who failed to assert themselves as individuals, like Mamie Eisenhower and Pat Nixon, were derided as female furniture.

But Japan failed to assert itself in the face of U.S. opposition.

Their mood did not improve when the action got under way as Rangers failed to assert themselves.

Though his government has United Nations backing, it has so far failed to assert itself outside of Baidoa.