Sentence examples for keen to assert from inspiring English sources

The chancellor is also keen to assert his influence in the international realm as he moves closer to No 10.

Unlike the Taliban, which was dominated by a single Pushtun tribe, keen to assert its rights over other ethnic groups, the CIC is creaking with inter-communal tensions.

After all, the average person who thinks about the early 17th century doesn't see a newly emergent merchant class keen to assert its superiority over a landowning elite.

By the same token, if – as many seem keen to assert – postmodernism has already run its course, then what should we say has replaced it, post-postmodernism, perhaps?

When the Nazis seized power three years later the museum was co-opted by the Nazi propaganda machine, keen to assert the importance of heredity, eugenics and "racial hygiene".

"Guys like Wynton Marsalis were young players who were keen to be taken seriously by an older generation of jazz musicians, and keen to assert that jazz was a high art form.

Polly Toynbee asserted that I am "keen to ferret out bad treatment, if only for nefarious political purposes" (The new climate of diktat and fear sweeping the NHS,7 January).

However, delegates were also keen to reject any notion that the problem was too broad to address with fresh research, and asserted that overcoming the complex taxonomy of multimorbidity was an important challenge in itself.

But they all seem keen to try.

Fyodorov was also keen to succeed Gerashchenko.

He was not keen to listen.