Sentence examples for social assertions from inspiring English sources

Mattson's book also makes some peculiar social assertions: "A country stabilizing its abundance and prosperity had started to define people by what they owned".

Pilgrimage and other repeated trips inscribe histories and meanings emphatically, while formal gardens are the most completely human-made social assertions.

Who knows, perhaps a bit of social assertion isn't such a bad thing after all.

Nor, for the same reason, can it be understood as an assertion of social relativism: the assertion that for girls to exercise naked is shameful in Athens is not opposed to the claim that it is not shameful in Sparta.

Gay weddingmoons revive the civic aspirations of the early bridal tours; they're an assertion of social belonging& 8212a statement, "we are here".

His reiterated attempt to express the dignity of an adult man is a social project, an assertion of the deepest possible civil right.

(3) Identify group differences regarding young children's social skills (cooperation, assertion, self-control, and responsibility).

Bakker's raptors are shown as monogamous, relatively intelligent and social creatures, an assertion he defends, saying "the life of dinosaurian hunters was hard.

The facts support Sydney's assertion: Social media usage has increased nationally by almost 1000 percent in eight years for people between 18 and 29, according to findings from the Pew Research Center.

One of them swore that Nutbusters had worked for his "cousin" -- and according to our school's unwritten social code, any assertion of something having happened to one's cousin is pure, unassailable truth.

The Bush campaign has sought to use Mr. Gore's on-again, off-again support for government investment in the stock market to undermine the vice president's assertions that Social Security benefits should not be dependent on Wall Street.