Sentence examples for stand to assert from inspiring English sources

The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Mr. Johnson took the stand to assert his innocence.

Will you take the stand to assert that true Christianity embraces ALL members and supports equal rights for everyone, including non-Christians, homosexuals in their quest for marriage rights, and women in theirs for reproductive freedom?

When we stand together to assert our power over our economy, we cannot fail.

In short, H. Carl McCall (he absolutely refuses to say what the "H" stands for) needs to assert himself.

Mr. Jian played down any economic competition with the United States, whose tourists, he asserted, stood to benefit from China's presence in the Caribbean.

Adults play a critical role in teaching kids to assert themselves, stand up for others, reach out to adults, empathize with peers, control their emotions, and solve problems.

But for the strike, Hearst asserted, The Times stood to make a profit in 2000 as well.

Today, Mr. Florio asserted that Goldman Sachs "stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars at the expense of our retirees" if Mr. Corzine's plan is adopted for a limited investment of the Social Security trust fund in the stock market.

To assert that it stands "above the main entrance  to Oriel College" implies that he is treated as the college's supreme hero.

Rather, it is important as a way for the United States to assert that it stands not with the supporters of Greater Israel but with what the writer Bernard Avishai calls "Global Israel," the constituencies that accept the moral necessity of a Palestinian state and understand the dire cost of Israeli isolation.

"She is going to file her suit in order to stand up and assert her dignity as a woman," Mr. Thompson said.