Sentence examples for position to assert from inspiring English sources

Wouldn't those communities now be much better off and in a much stronger position to assert their rights vis-à-vis Israel?

Mr Bolton is now our nation's chief UN envoy without the senate's endorsement and is in a weakened position to assert US interests.

Instead, one is indicating that one is in a position to assert that such and such is the case (one has the proper credentials and reasons) in circumstances where it is necessary to resolve a doubt.

When these conditions are satisfied when one is, in fact, in a position to assert that such and such is the case one can correctly be said to know.

To recover domains that use their names, he said, "they would have the hurdle of showing they make commercial use of their name, and that might be a politically questionable position to assert in court".

These forces were in a position to assert themselves until the spring of 2002, during the first year and a half of the current Palestinian uprising, when Israeli troops were making only periodic forays into Palestinian areas.

In an era when the power of the individual and the group grows daily, those governments that ride the technological wave will clearly be best positioned to assert their influence and bring others into their orbits.

A community trying to fight off colonial-era myths about it being taught as fact and history, or a group of scholars deploying the privilege of their positions to assert a dogmatic theory about India never having existed before 1947 over children?

In these cases, one often sees Voltaire defending less a carefully reasoned position on a complex philosophical problem than adopting a political position designed to assert his conviction that liberty of speech, no matter what the topic, is sacred and cannot be violated.

The journalist who later became Morgan's successor said that he agreed with a question from David Barr, junior counsel for the inquiry, that he was not "in a position to positively assert one way or the other" what the ultimate source of that news story was.

By this statement, he presumably means to say that one is never in a position to conclusively assert that a hypothesis is true, while one may be in a position to conclusively assert that a hypothesis is false.