Sentence examples for gathered to assert from inspiring English sources

Women from worker organizations in 10 cities gathered to assert their rights and dignity, to press for better pay and working conditions, and to build a national movement for their cause.

But, just minutes before the committee gathered to discuss the vote, Obama asserted executive privilege to withhold the documents.

As mourners gathered to remember the life of Heather Heyer, who was killed while protesting against hate, the president asserted the moral equivalence of the actions of neo-Nazis and those who opposed them.

Children gathered to watch.

Onlookers have gathered to watch.

Estonians gathered to sing songs.

A crowd gathered to watch.

Thousands gathered to DRUM! DANCE!

Last week, as the showdown began in earnest, Boras's opt-out drama became caught up in a much grander, almost Shakespearean drama in Tampa, where the heirs of the doddering patriarch George Steinbrenner gathered, like Lear's, to assert control of his kingdom.

On August 28 , 1963 more than 250,000 people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to assert their rights to decent jobs and dignity at work.

Wherever a great body of heroes was gathered together, this right was determined by boasting contests between the contenders: to assert the right to the hero's portion, a claimant must first produce his credentials by boasting his heroic exploits, and then shame his opponents by quashing their objections and counter-claims.