Sentence examples for prepared to assert from inspiring English sources

Is Mr Brown prepared to assert the rights of nation states to control capital flows?

So as the Obama administration prepared to assert control over Chrysler and General Motors, Mr. Feinberg flew to Washington to try to salvage what he could.

The purge suggests that Mr. Humala, a former military officer who has adopted a low-key governing style, is prepared to assert his control over Peru's governing institutions, starting with an issue that resonates with many Peruvians.

Stonewall's chief executive, Ben Summerskill, acknowledges that in recent years, MPs with trade union backgrounds like John Prescott or Alan Johnson have been prepared to assert that equality means equality, which simply wasn't the case in the 1960s.

As the parliament prepared to assert its demands for more power, giving "greater democratic legitimacy to the EU", even six of the 28 British Tories were reportedly planning to defy their whips over the Barroso team.

GM made clear to him that it thinks that changes at Fiat Auto have rendered the put option invalid, and it is prepared to assert that in court (in the Netherlands, where Fiat Auto's parent company is registered and Italian political pressures probably are not felt).

As Republicans prepare to assert new authority in Congress, America's overseas trading partners worry that Washington's political upheaval may pose fresh challenges to the global economy.

WASHINGTON -- As Republicans prepare to assert majority rule in the Virginia Senate following Tuesday's general elections, the one remaining unsettled contest may remain unresolved in the coming weeks, leaving the slim possibility that Democrats may still end up controlling the narrowly divided chamber.

Mr Yanukovych says that he is still the country's president, but he has still not spelt out what he is prepared to do to assert this.

It has come to this: the Scottish government is prepared to deny, deflect, assert and insult in order to win this referendum".

One may convince himself this is indeed correct by considering the following: in a dialectical situation, the only way to attack the assertion ¬A is to assert A, and be prepared to defend this assertion.