Sentence examples for means of asserting from inspiring English sources

Men fighting other men, for example, is a public demonstration of machismo, and while I'm reluctant to ascribe any kind of meaning to a cruel, meaningless act domestic violence is often used as a means of asserting dominance over one's partner or family.

It was intended as a means of asserting queer presence and identities.

Mexico no longer reflexively counters American diplomacy as a means of asserting its own sovereignty.

Bodies claiming to represent minority communities do tend to use perceived threats as a means of asserting their authority.

Her friends say this is a coping strategy - a means of asserting some power over a situation over which she has no control.

For them, carnival was not a cultural reminder of a distant and different home but a means of asserting their claim to the only home they knew.

(By the time he stepped down in 1992, he reckoned he had got the numbers back to Lloyd's total, as good a means as any of asserting the independence of the chair).

This meant that they were "capable of asserting themselves among the ship-owners and county governors in the board" of the Norwegian Peace Association.

Besides the analytic question of what it means to assert that objects exist independently of the mind, metaphysical realism also raises epistemological problems: how can we obtain knowledge of a mind-independent world?

The novel includes a host of minor characters who, in Richard Franklin's words, "grope for the means to assert the validity of self and to anchor this individuality in a nightmare which constantly faces it with black nothingness".

But a pronounced strain of cruelty meant his fondness for debate was usually a way of asserting his own authority.