I no longer felt comfortable asserting these ideas about spirit, body, mind, and food as truths.
Mr. Genovese repeatedly felt compelled to assert that his books were not an apology for slavery.
Asked if he felt able to assert his independence from the governor's office as some past chairmen have, Mr. Sander chose his words with evident care.
But Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, gleefully says that Mr. Cheney felt compelled to assert his desire to stay on the ticket to quell whispers in Republican circles that Mr. Bush should dump him because his ties to Halliburton were becoming a liability.
But I never felt the tragedy she asserts, and only Bruce Jay Friedman or Iris Murdoch could have done justice to the other.
For instance, many feel that whoever asserts the existence of something has the burden of proof.
He felt the need to assert himself immediately.
Recently, while entertaining a roomful of corporate clients over a tenderloin dinner, he felt the need to assert his and his industry's worthiness.
When Canada felt the need to assert its sovereignty in the 1950s, Inuit families from northern Quebec were relocated to unfamiliar terrain in the high Arctic.
As Churchill's heir apparent, Anthony Eden had to wait 10 frustrating years to receive the Tory crown and, once in office, felt the need to assert his authority.
