Sentence examples for failing to assert from inspiring English sources

This does not mean giving things up or failing to assert our rights and requirements.

In a foreign policy address on Monday, Mr. Romney harshly criticized the president for failing to assert American leadership across the Middle East.

His "inner tribunal" striving, but often failing, to assert his better self, Rudy is a cruelly accurate comic creation, tortured by conscience as well as piles.

While less aggressive, Mr. Romney pressed back, accusing the president of failing to assert American interests and values in the world to deal with a "rising tide of chaos".

The existence of multiple similarly worded indicators is no longer a license to squelch theory by saturating the latent level of the model with factor correlations, or by failing to assert a latent's meaning with a fixed measurement error variance for the best of the multiple indicators.

Judge Prost criticized the majority for failing to inquire whether the asserted claims included an "inventive concept" and improperly devising a new approach to evaluate patent eligiblity, i.e. a "manifestly evident" approach.

Murray sliced and scurried, but could assert himself, failing to break up Giraldo's rhythm.

Mr. Gulyás asserts that failing to reenact the unconstitutional constitutional amendments would have been a problem because "Parliament had a constitutional responsibility to re-regulate these matters, otherwise an ex lex situation would have created complete legal uncertainty".

Another approach to the question of the authority of democracy asserts that failing to obey the decisions of a democratic assembly amounts to treating one's fellow citizens as inferiors (Christiano 2004, 284-287).

Indeed, it may just as reasonably be asserted that failing to advance democracy is harmful to these interests.

But for the two decades he was in charge of that office, the future pope never asserted that authority, failing to act even as the cases undermined the church's credibility in the United States, Australia, Ireland and elsewhere.