Sentence examples for fought to assert from inspiring English sources

Guild leaders have fought to assert their hold over larger swaths of what their letter described as "multinational conglomerates," including units that produce reality television without guild writers, even as company executives have insisted on keeping union authority confined to their traditional movie and television businesses.

These wars appear to have been fought to assert hegemony and demand tribute, rather than to subjugate and annexe those territories.

Fighting to assert and protect its powers of the purse and war, a resurgent Congress passed both the War Powers Resolution and the Congressional Budget Act.

As more states pass their own drug laws, it may become more difficult for America to maintain a coherent national policy.Already, California's medical-marijuana law has sparked two court cases in which the federal government has had to fight to assert its sovereignty over drug-related matters.

Because the time clock is running out, expect all the Republican candidates to be angry, indignant and ready to fight to assert their dominance in the pack and move up in the polls.

To applause from delegates, she said Cáceres, who won the Goldman environmental prize last year, had paid the highest price in her fight "to assert different values against the power structures that could compromise agenda 2030".

Most transgender women face a daily fight to assert their womanhood in a society that still overwhelmingly see them as "fake" women.

Edward's refusal to fight and to assert his needs signals his nihilism; he doesn't care enough to argue.

It tried to fight back, to assert its primacy.

Mr. Hurd, now a president of the Oracle Corporation, had fought to keep the letter private, asserting California's privacy laws.

Many CIOs and CTOs have never fought hard enough to assert themselves as business executives.