Sentence examples for mean asserting from inspiring English sources

Recognizing species differences need not mean asserting superiority but rather acknowledging and respecting otherness.

For others, it may simply mean asserting ourselves as independent, even eccentric, "free men" rather than what Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck called "herd men".

It might mean asserting herself in the moment, it might mean asking for help -- it does mean never feeling afraid or bad in asking for help or in telling.

But if the Catholic experience in the United States holds any lesson it is that becoming American also means asserting one's constitutional rights, fully and forcefully, even if that assertion is occasionally taken to be insulting".

"People assume the word attack means running from everywhere but, in reality, it means asserting yourself on the opposition.

This means asserting the duty of parliament to scrutinise the executive and to hold the government of the day to account.

This means asserting control over the giant web companies, those that monetise our lives but also hold our memories, our communications – everything down to our location.

No, being a goldbug means asserting that gold offers unique security in troubled times; it also means asserting that all would be well if we abolished the Federal Reserve and returned to the good old gold standard, in which the value of the dollar was fixed in terms of gold and that was that.

Believing in God, Kugel suggests — possibly being a tad ahistorical — originally meant aligning yourself with the force of the universe, of humbly opening yourself up to its grandeur, more than it meant asserting faith in a particular deity.

This meant asserting control over Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

Also, it's high time Christians were honest about the fact that asserting that homosexuals should stop acting homosexual necessarily means asserting that they should spend their lives never knowing the loving intimacy with another that straight people enjoy and know to be the best and richest experience in life.