Sentence examples for force to assert from inspiring English sources

The others would stay in Moscow, ready to take over the levers of power and use force to assert their authority if challenged.

And if Russia is willing and able to use force to assert control over its self-declared sphere of influence, won't others do the same?

Every fifth girl has resorted to using force to assert herself.

We react against those forces to assert our own identities.

And it leads to an even bigger payoff if the president stumbles in his response, forced to assert that rumors of his demise are premature.

Because the "flexibility" of the modern office, Saval shows, mainly just means freedom for the most powerful forces to assert themselves.

The American military has killed several Somali insurgent leaders and terrorism suspects in covert strikes over the past few years, though American officials have recently said that it was crucial for Somali government forces to assert themselves and that this war could not be won by outside help.

But up until recently, China simply didn't have sufficient nuclear weapons or conventional forces to assert itself regionally, much less globally.

I'm thereby forced to assert that what we call the stream of the present cannot logically proceed from what we are forced to admit no longer exists (the past).

Some analysts speculate that the Islamists' strategy is to retreat to the north, wait for the French/ECOWAS forces to assert control over the land, wage an insurgency to weaken their morale, and drive them out of northern Mali.

Those hearings and demands appear to have been timed so that President Obama would be forced to assert Executive Privilege the week of the Watergate anniversary, and Republicans spent last week trying to draw parallels between the two events.