I first did so when readers powerfully asserted that yes, you could honorably take your own food to the movies, despite a theater's prohibition.
Aretha Franklin then yearns for equality in Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, powerfully asserting that: "A woman's only human … she's flesh and blood just like a man" – a nugget of truth often overlooked perhaps because men repeatedly seem to make it Hard for themselves and everyone else.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka powerfully asserted that "we cannot win economic justice only for ourselves, for union members alone.
During her confirmation hearings, Justice Sotomayor powerfully asserted a straightforward "apply-law-to-the-facts" approach to judging, but she came off sounding almost indistinguishable from John Roberts and his riff on judicial umpires.
When Emmett Till's mother chose to have an open casket for her lynched son's funeral, she was a black woman powerfully asserting her agency and preemptively challenging white denial of racial violence — and at a time when such assertions practically guaranteed further violence.
The autobiographical novel "Freshwater" (Grove, 2018) tells the harrowing tale of a Nigerian girl who contains several separate selves, identities who assert themselves even more powerfully when she moves to America and is raped.
The strongest poets will be those who most successfully assert their originality over their inheritance, and who most powerfully banish the traces of the precursor from their own work.
These countries powerfully resent Germany and France for asserting their unelected leadership role in Europe.
Yet identity politics has asserted itself powerfully in the makeup of each rival's political coalition.
They asserted themselves powerfully, however, once he began to lecture and preach on the for him paramount themes of salvation by faith alone (sola fide) and exclusive reliance on scripture (sola scriptura).
Because the cultural myths about rights powerfully suggest that asserting rights is a sign of selfishness and conceit, people are understandingly reluctant to individually and in isolation assert their rights (pp. 163) With this in mind, the legalization of ADs may appear not as an authentication of the documents but rather as an instigation of "rights talk".
