Sentence examples for in an attempt to reassert from inspiring English sources

Two years later, in an attempt to reassert his rights, Otakar marched on Vienna but was killed at the Battle of Dürnkrut.

The spirit of insurrection that inspired the Fronde (a period of civil unrest between 1648 and 1653, in which the high aristocracy allied themselves with the judicial bodies known as parlements in an attempt to reassert their independence of the centralizing monarchy) is clearly marked in the writing of the time, not least in Corneille's tragedies.

Rattled by the revolts of North Africa and the Middle East, and yielding to the demands of a security apparatus that has been radically empowered since the staging of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese leadership has launched an assault against all government critics in an attempt to reassert control over an increasingly assertive civil society.

France and Great Britain have seized the moment in an attempt to reassert national prestige in what appears to be a clear-cut case for military action based upon moral principles.

Politics returned to the fore, however, at the Munich games in 1972 - an attempt to reassert democratic West Germany's position in the family of nations.

It is a tragic irony that the misogynist abuse I have endured is an attempt to reassert the patriarchal status quo, in which women in the public space are to be seen but not heard.

We can see the Occupy movement as an attempt to reassert this image in the face of growing inequality and the societal divorce of the 1% from the masses.

(IDI, 24, petty drug seller)Violence and controlling behaviours enacted by men against their female partners were widely described by men as an attempt to reassert their dignity and respect in relation to women.

McDonald's describes all these changes as an attempt to "reassert" itself as "a modern, progressive burger company".

South Korea had considered the trip an attempt to reassert Japan's claim to the islands, which are situated about halfway between the two countries.

By 1988 the Guardian made an attempt to reassert its position with a new masthead (logo), fonts and with the paper split into two sections.