Sentence examples for steps to assert from inspiring English sources

Japan said at the time that it was acting to pre-empt Japanese nationalists from trying to take more provocative steps to assert control.

The Japanese government said it was acting to pre-empt the purchase of the islands by the nationalist former mayor of Tokyo, who wanted to build a lighthouse and take other more provocative steps to assert Japanese control.

Relations between the US and China are already on edge because of Beijing's increasingly aggressive steps to assert itself in the region, including in territorial disputes with its smaller neighbours.

Hard pressed by the loss of 75% of its former oil reserves when South Sudan seceded, followed by the loss of oil-related fees due to production stoppage, Sudan took aggressive steps to assert claims to disputed oil-rich areas on or near the border, principally Heglig and Abyei.

The troop mobilization sends a clear message ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which is scheduled to take place here in June, that Brazil is taking steps to assert greater control over its porous frontiers in the Amazon.

Her son Waters Smith Davis began taking steps to assert the family title to the island.

But maybe be an actual violet Ms. Garrett-Cox, the Scottish investment chief, said that she had taken an unusual step to assert herself among colleagues after being tapped for the chief executive position: she redecorated her office in purple.

Argentina has taken several steps recently to assert its claim that the Falklands belong to its government.

She said she stepped forward to assert "a defensive stance".

Think of it this way: When was the last time a nominee's wife stepped forward to assert her children and her marriage were more important and satisfying to her than her career?

But every step he takes to assert himself over the affairs of others, to make his will reality, leads inexorably to his downfall.