Sentence examples for quietly asserting from inspiring English sources

In the background of the Williams sisters, the Russians were quietly asserting themselves as a world power in tennis.

Today, Mr. Pandit is still at the helm, and through a series of small but important moves, he is quietly asserting his influence.

On Christie's insistence, she moves into a care home, leaving her rudderless husband to question whether his wife of several decades is really as ill as she seems, or whether she's quietly asserting her independence and getting her revenge on him for past misdeeds.

While many developers in the multibillion-dollar video game industry seek to extend its appeal, profile and profits with bolder, flashier and ever more engrossing games -- some so difficult that learning curves outlast players -- a different sort of video game is quietly asserting itself into the mainstream.

"Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives," he quietly asserts.

In a neighborhood awash in BMW's, Jaguars and Porsches, this sports car quietly asserts its presence.

It is possible, this book quietly asserts, that there may actually be riches gained and experiences broadened by something as theoretically troubling as a divorce.

Instead countries will quietly assert themselves by building more bases: the US has six, the UK two, Australia three and China four.

Players like Nash and Callahan may get the headlines, but if Stepan has quietly asserted himself as the Rangers' most consistent and perhaps important forward, his biggest test is yet to come.

With each encounter the tension between them grows, as Von Pfunz quietly asserts his power, without quite resorting to sexual blackmail, and Jeanne accommodates and pretends to welcome his attentions — as on some level she does — while rebelling at the humiliating position she is put in.

Anne Whiston Spirn, professor of landscape architecture and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written that he recorded, understood and celebrated "the natural and built world," and also "quietly asserted the abiding importance of the garden and the practical, sensual, and traditional qualities of materials, craft and design".