Sentence examples for place asserting from inspiring English sources

The first letter writer urged that an "objective evaluation" of the program take place, asserting that the center needed a change of direction and "increasingly looks like a major missed opportunity".

On Wednesday, a Russian military spokesperson claimed that the bombing didn't even take place, asserting that the hospital had been destroyed months earlier despite the fact that Doctors Without Borders (also known as Medecins Sans Frontires or MSF) has released photos and videos that clearly document the assault on the hospital.

There are compelling episodes, when the author's prejudices melt away and the spirit of place asserts itself.

Avoid just telling the therapist about your behavior; in its place, try asserting the feelings, motives or reasons you might procure behind each one if you know.

Some Muslims had a "dual psychology", he said, that insisted on playing the victim in some places while asserting a dominant role in others.

In "Brooklyn," Colm Toibin quietly, modestly shows how place can assert itself, enfolding the visitor, staking its claim.

Thomas L. Friedman (column, Oct. 2) makes a point of rebutting the terrorists' notion that America is a "godless, spiritless place," and asserts that "at some level" our society "believes every individual is created in the image of God".

The book's real strength lies in its analysis of the post-Civil War era, when a flood of new money forced New York's more established families to look to the public arena as a place to assert their distinctiveness.

By removing the obstructive and often painful scarring and exposing some of that remaining erectile tissue, then stitching it finely into place, she asserts that after about two months of healing it can function as a new clitoris, restoring the potential for pleasurable sex.

Prison was no place to assert his sense of fair play.

He says the economy is providing more opportunities, and his government has insisted the correct place to assert demands for reform is at the ballot box and in Congress.