Sentence examples for in an effort to assert from inspiring English sources

Special police units have moved into about 20 slums, called favelas, in an effort to assert government control and combat crime.

To complicate matters further Proton's management, in an effort to assert control, has signed vague letters of intent with carmakers including Peugeot and China's Chery.

In 1948, the Soviets cut off most road and rail access to the city's three western sectors, in an effort to assert their authority.

Macedonians, Serbs, and Bulgarians, however, have established their own autocephalous Orthodox churches in an effort to assert the legitimacy of their national identities.

BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Indonesia Limits Rural Relief Indonesia's military, in an effort to assert control, ordered restrictions on foreign aid workers, limiting their free operation to two main cities hit by the tsunami.

"When something like this happens which he finds to be particularly objectionable," Mr. Liebenson said, referring to the Audi and Opel advertisements, "he's willing to be engaged in an effort to assert his rights, and in doing so he has helped clarify the law in two key jurisdictions".

McKenna's conference in Kona was an effort to assert some of the positive uses of psychedelics, and perhaps to tempt more creative people to emerge from the ordinary reality closet.

The decision to create the new group, five months after Mr. Bush declared the end of active combat in Iraq, appears part of an effort to assert more direct White House control over how Washington coordinates its efforts to fight terrorism, develop political structures and encourage economic development in the two countries.

NEW DELHI Indiaia launched its first unmanned spacecraft to orbit the moon early Wednesday, part of an effort to assert its power in space and claim some of the business opportunities there.

PAGE A14 INDIA AIMS FOR THE MOON India has launched its first unmanned spacecraft to orbit the moon, part of an effort to assert its power in space and claim some of the business opportunities there.

The fear is that it may now escalate into open warfare.Meanwhile, in an apparent effort to assert state control, warplanes have bombed Shura Council bases on the outskirts of the town.