Sentence examples for greater assertion from inspiring English sources
European Union leaders ended a two-day summit meeting here today exuding optimism about their economies and promising greater assertion in foreign affairs.
They both call for a greater assertion of American power, and both breeze by the enormous resentments that power has engendered abroad, even among allies.
Pippa Virdee, a senior lecturer on South Asian History at De Montfort University, says: "There has generally been a greater assertion of what it is to be Sikh in the last 10 to 15 years.
In 2002, following criticism from Philip Gould, Blair announced the need to reinvent the brand based on a unified domestic policy and greater assertion in foreign affairs.
Schoolchildren learn about it as one of the great assertions of Mexican sovereignty.
Mr Sangay dared to predict that the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans' spiritual leader, would yet return to his homeland once his countrymen had won greater freedom.His assertion is threefold.
A complaint from the Children's Food Campaign has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority ASAA) which said the "great start" assertion was likely to be understood as a reference to the health benefits of the drink, but was not accompanied by any authorised health claims and therefore breached regulations.
It was, in its way, Poitier's last great statement of belief, an assertion of his right to be a person on film.
But with more than half a billion Chinese citizens now online, more than 300 million active on Weibo (China's Twitter) and an increasingly ineffective "great firewall," assertions of control over words and ideas reflect little more than wishful thinking.
The Herald ran a news article that quoted a laid-off KB employee calling Bain's profit from the investment "disgusting," a distinction that the movie deliberately masks to give a single employee's assertion greater authority.
Among the soloists, the mezzo Margaret Lattimore and bass-baritone Nathan Berg were appealingly gentle with the music yet totally secure and clear, while Stanford Olsen's Italian-style tenofferedred a nice contrast, of greater sophistication and assertion.
