Sentence examples for interested in asserting from inspiring English sources

It is easy simply to inveigh against the situation, the way that both Russia and the west are more interested in asserting their own position (and virtue) than engaging with the other's.

I have no idea if those commentaries are on the mark but I respectfully suggest that if the chief is really interested in asserting the court's independence, he should embrace the Code of Conduct and get his colleagues to adopt it.

"Those who have argued that we are the natural owners of our rights and liberties," Graeber writes, "have been mainly interested in asserting that we should be free to give them away, or even to sell them".

For starters, we were interested in asserting whether the characteristics observed on the whole OpenPGP WoT [11] repeated in the subset of it represented by the Debian keyrings.

Dan Holler, a spokesman for Heritage Action -- the campaign arm of the Heritage Foundation -- denied it was more interested in itself, asserting that the organization's efforts were indeed about promoting conservative policy.

I've heard many TPUSA student activists justify their tactics saying that when their schools violate the First Amendment it will help push moderate students further to the right, but I'm convinced that most of them are really just interested in loudly asserting their presence on campus instead of engaging in reasoned debate.

Ruefulness, compassion, outrage, fine feelings, and virtuous motives are often too easily packaged in films where the filmmakers seem less interested in discovering than in asserting.

(And no, I don't want to be a pediatrician. I'm interested in oncology). Lelen Another student in the action stage wrote: I have begun to "Grow into my own," and have made strides in asserting myself.

And for Mr. Allen, the phase of his career that began with the 2005 release of "Match Point" has seen him delve into female characters who are further removed from his familiar life experiences, and more interested in finding and asserting their place in the world.

That's his subject; in a terrific interview in the French daily Libération this week, he even said that he's interested in "how a character asserts itself in contradiction, in the bosom of a group".

Theories that dwell on self-interested behaviour assert that individuals are less interested in the wellbeing of others and are driven primarily by self-gain.