Sentence examples for means to assert from inspiring English sources

With headlines calling him "Mr. Weak" and asking whether he is "up to the task," Mr. Hollande and his aides see Wednesday's announcement as a means to assert authority, change the conversation and regain momentum.

In both cases, a practice that began with the non-binary community as a means to assert a gender outside of the binary is being taken up by individuals who simply reject having a gender label attached.

Mr. O'Farrill, who may resurrect the skeletons again on Thursday, said that he means to assert that jazz needs to take itself less seriously — and, jokes aside, take more seriously the notions of swing as purveyed by practitioners of the music from Chile to the Rio Grande.

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?

Of course it is entirely possible to ask what it means to assert an open sentence, but notice that again we are converging on a view in which the determiners fall out, leaving behind a free variable.

By talking to representatives from industry, students can learn what industry wants and needs, they can expand their skills via placements organized by btS and thus learn at an early stage what it means to assert oneself as a scientist on the market".

I do not mean to assert that young female workers face more challenges than male workers or older workers.

The building of new Hiltons abroad coincided with a vast State Department embassy construction program meant to assert America's presence as a superpower through architectural modernism.

Officials said the extension, along with the closing of two offices linked to the Palestinian Authority, were meant to assert Israeli authority over East Jerusalem, which Palestinians consider the future capital of their hoped-for state.

Mr. Sharon's tour was meant to assert Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, but the vast security operation organized for the visit suggested that he had anything but free access to the compound, which is effectively run by Islamic officials.

But I do mean to assert that state prosecutors should now be considering how they will present to an Ohio grand jury the evidence which could support a charge of aggravated murder based on Casto's alleged repeated purposeful efforts to unlawfully terminate Michelle Knight's pregnancies.