Sentence examples for growing assertion from inspiring English sources

In a curious way, the growing assertion of Englishness frames a deepening desire to belong to a distinctive locality.

Beijing's virtual snub of talks in New York on Saturday on the Iranian nuclear program was just the latest example of what many China watchers see as a growing assertion of China's self-interest.

The growing assertion of the Christian south is provoking fierce doctrinal arguments, too, often over their preference for literal readings of the Bible and a conservative view on social issues.

The next few years, however, featured both a startling explosion of organized baseball clubs, most playing the New York version of the game, and a growing assertion that baseball was now our national pastime.

Because of these two recent developments--the expanding U.S. naval presence in the South China Sea and the growing assertion by China of what it considers to be its national rights in the region--there have been an increasing number of alarming incidents between the military forces of the two countries.

For a pianist sometimes described as "thundering" Beethoven, his Waldstein was strikingly reined in, with the first movement growing in assertion through a range of muted yet shifting dynamics, the Adagio admirably sparse and Spartan, and the rondo, after a breathtaking transition, launched with unpretentious grace and at a sensible speed so that nothing seemed rushed or hectored.

And it is doubly brave to argue, at a time when most forms of welfare spending are under challenge, that the rat gnawing at the vitals of the American economy is growing inequality.The assertion of Bruce Ackerman and Ann Alstott, two law professors at Yale University, is that recent economic success hardly touches most Americans.

The growing culture of assertion and the death of persuasion, rather than the loss of civility, are what we ought to fear about our politics.

His look — remnant CBGB rocker washed ashore among skinny-jean hipsters of Williamsburg — lends credence to Mr. Taft's assertion that, growing up as an "art geek" in Manhattan, he never saw himself as a search-and-rescue kind of guy.

Still another Federal question is urged, growing out of the assertion that the laws are, by their necessary effect, an interference with and a regulation of interstate commerce, the grounds for which assertion it is not now necessary to enlarge upon.

In a scene of Whitehall nabobs discussing what to exhibit at the fair, we get British philistinism lampooned by way of the blimpish Sir John Balfour who suggests a military tattoo, and British progressiveness embodied in the counter-suggestion of a history of the water closet, with Sir John growing apoplectic at the assertion that even Her Majesty does "number twos".