Sentence examples for power to assert from inspiring English sources

In this mix of complexity and incompleteness lies the possibility for those without power to assert "we are here" and "this is also our city".

(female, 40, caring for 7-year-old niece) Staff who are not pleased with patients can act negatively towards them with relative impunity and patients have no power to assert their needs or dissatisfaction.

Labour suggests that councils should be given powers to assert that a change from a bank to payday lender represents a change of planning use and can therefore be blocked by the council.

Security concerns have increased dramatically during the past 2 years, and it has become almost commonplace for the major maritime and military powers to assert the right to stop and board merchant vessels to look for suspect cargoes in all parts of the oceans.

The others would stay in Moscow, ready to take over the levers of power and use force to assert their authority if challenged.

Late in the 13th century, royal power began to assert itself under the oba Ewedo and was firmly established under the most famous oba, Ewuare the Great (reigned c. 1440 80), who was described as a great warrior and magician.

Catcalling is a power game to assert ownership over women and their bodies, it is the oppression of patriarchy in live-action.

While driving Kerimov, Trevor monologues about the ineffectiveness of torture, pointing out Kerimov's readiness to supply the FIB with the information without being tortured, and expressing that torture is used as a power play "to assert ourselves".

Rather than appeal to power, we need to assert power - because we have the power to enact social change.

A vote for Jill Stein empowers an admirer of Vladimir Putin who would assert US power to maintain Assad in Syria.

Game makers, producers and, arguably most importantly, its audience have tremendous power to either assert these stereotypes or resist them.