Sentence examples for to assert for from inspiring English sources

"In such a context, does migration constitute a choice or a necessity?"Migrants' rights may be easy to assert for islanders whose homes are drowned but hard in the case of big, messy movements across Africa and Asia.

The defendant having herself so construed and treated the bill, will not be allowed on final hearing, in order to defeat the jurisdiction, to assert, for the first time, that Baldwin, and not the bank, was the complainant.

It was an extraordinary turnaround - after allowing newspapers to assert for over a week that a "junior" member of staff was to blame, RDF conceded that one of its most senior directors was directly responsible.

To assert, for example, that it already embodies a solution to the mind-body problem (see mind-body dualism) presupposes that it is possible to determine what that solution is; yet there does not seem to be a method of doing so that does not entangle one in all the familiar difficulties associated with that debate.

Ten days later, Mr. Kelly's chief spokesman arranged a rare meeting at Police Headquarters to which he invited some of those lawyers, from the Police and Law Departments, to assert for reporters the legality of how the police investigate political and religious groups.

Yet Mr van der Hoeven continued to assert for much of 2002 that it was on course for double-digit profit growth promises that may now form the basis of class-action lawsuits.The $500m overstatement is due primarily to Ahold's US Foodservice unit, which supplies food to schools, hospitals and restaurants—although there are also issues over its Disco subsidiary in Argentina and several other units.

It will not do to assert that "for me the meaning of my life lies in asphyxiating dormice".

After the Conservative electoral defeat in 1997, Major resigned as party leader, and Clarke was quick to assert himself for the position.

And it was recently announced that CEO Jeff Immelt is headed to India again this month, in part to assert support for manufacturing in the country.

That competition is likely to flare anew as lawmakers try to assert responsibility for President Bush's new domestic defense initiative.

It typically takes the Islamic State several hours, and sometimes up to one and even two days, to assert responsibility for attacks in Western countries.