Sentence examples for quiet assertion from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, me send message to Washington via quiet assertion of strength.

The reader's enjoyment does not depend on noticing such allusions, but it will be enriched if they hear O'Brien's quiet assertion of a tradition.

Herzog did his work with remarkable restraint, allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions, despite his own quiet assertion that he did not agree with capital punishment himself.

Most notably, China's quiet assertion in India's backyard has put Sri Lanka's government in a position not only to play China off against India, but also to ignore complaints from outside Asia about human rights violations in the war.

Getty Images   I like many SNP members come from a traditional socialist Labour family and I have never been quiet in my assertion that I feel that it is the Labour party that left me, not the other way about.

This Oscar list – and I think this award season – has a quiet triumphalism to it, an assertion of traditional mainstream Hollywood liberal values at a time when President Obama has been returned to office and the Republican right has retreated, although it is a very mainstream liberalism, and the hero of Spielberg's film is a Republican.

B1 Representative Rick A. Lazio scoffed at Mrs. Clinton's assertion that she played a quiet but major role in Clinton administration policy and legislative efforts.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's assertion that she played a quiet but major role in several policy and legislative efforts by the Clinton administration cannot be trusted and stems from a bid to "reinvent" herself for voters, Representative Rick A. Lazio said yesterday.

As for the blissful assertions of Tasaday pacifism, those went quiet within months of their discovery when they were seen scrambling for bows and arrows on spotting an intruder.

Save for two EPs 2012's excellent Work, Live & Sleep in a Collapsing Space and last year's more experimental Assertion of a Surrounding Presence he's stayed mostly quiet.

Despite Bush's assertion that a troop increase in Afghanistan represents a "quiet surge", these additions amount to little more than a trickle.