Sentence examples for reassert ownership from inspiring English sources

Omar Sultan, a cultural adviser to the government of Afghanistan, told me wistfully that his country could hardly afford to hire lawyers to reassert ownership over the thousands of religious and cultural objects that were grabbed from Kabul and other places during  successive bouts of anarchy.

And by summoning clashing Palestinian factions to Mecca for make-or-break talks to form a unity government last month, the Saudis wielded their Muslim prestige and financial clout to reassert Arab ownership of the Palestinian issue.The fact that not all this manoeuvring meets America's approval is another sign of Saudi confidence.

It is the second time in one week that Qualcomm has failed in its quest to reassert its ownership of various mobile technology patents.

Scott Adams, the cartoonist best-known for his Dilbert strips, stood up for his work in a blog post in April last year, where he reasserted his ownership of his products: "When you violate a copyright, you take something valuable from the copyright owner that he can't get back..

John of Paris reasserts the traditional distinction between ownership and rulership.

Swedish manufacturers Saab and Volvo will both be looking to make their mark as they attempt to reassert their identities after escaping years of ownership by General Motors and Ford respectively.

The church reasserted itself in every aspect of social life, from land ownership to ecclesiastical organization, from the defense of orthodoxy and the culture of the Council of Trent to the education of the ruling class.

It seems that 20th-century ideas of ownership and control - especially of intellectual property such as copyright and trademarks - are being reasserted, with added legal muscle, after a 10-year period when the internet sparked an explosion of business models and (if we're honest) casual disregard, especially of copyright, when it came to music and video.

A Democratic amendment reasserted the limitation on "cross-ownership" by stations and newspapers.

Conservatives will reassert themselves.

While workers often feel an initial thrill about employee ownership, after several weeks of drudgery back on the assembly line, the thrill sometimes wears off and the us-against-them attitude toward management reasserts itself.