Sentence examples for kind of asserting from inspiring English sources

I think some of it also has to do with stigma and this younger generation wanting to blend in with the mainstream more both in terms of kind of asserting their place in the mainstream.

The alternative to Montalembert's doctrine was no longer an unconditional attachment to the principles of the ancien régime but a new kind of Ultramontanism, asserting the need for concentrating church authority in the pope's hands.

So I don't doubt that there will be some kind of villain asserting him or herself.

Thus one kind of Nominalism asserts that there are particular objects and that everything is particular, and the other asserts that there are concrete objects and that everything is concrete.

She does indeed assert that "All truths — not only the various kinds of rational truth but also factual truth — are opposed to opinion in their mode of asserting validity" (BPF, 239), since they all carry an element of compulsion.

Suppose, similarly, that in general, or perhaps always, speakers do have communicative intentions of some kind when asserting.

It was really a kind of colonialism in asserting English hegemony over Northern Irish poetry.

And besides, there was a moment after the first TV debate when boasting of Lib Dem inclination was a kind of proxy for asserting a vague constitutional right to resist the status quo.

Republicans, for their part, are appealing to those same voters with a kind of cultural populism, asserting that Democrats are flatly out of touch with mainstream, small-town America on issues from "partial birth abortion" to gun control.

(1) The most conspicuous sign is a remarkable increase in the frequency and intensity with which people engage in a specific kind of behaviour or assert a belief.

Her showcase piece was a dress she called the No Brainer, the kind of dress, she asserted, that every woman should have in her wardrobe.