Sentence examples for to assert power over from inspiring English sources

Comments about physical appearance are an attempt to assert power over somebody.

It's about people seeking to assert power over other people, and this is one way they do it".

We found that such homophobic language is used to assert power over other students.

The impulse to assert power over others is something we spend our whole lives trying to tame.

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These include the belief that a man has the right to assert power over a woman and is socially superior; that a woman's freedom should be restricted; that physical violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflict within a relationship; and that divorce brings shame to the family [ 5].

It is interesting that the impulse to assert power most often seems to take precedence over a desire to claim innocence.

Rather than appeal to power, we need to assert power - because we have the power to enact social change.

That is why the Constitution requires officials in the legislative and executive branches of government to make their way through so many locked doors before they may assert power over their fellow Americans.

But the real threat comes from countries that already can and do assert power over the ISPs and websites within their borders, Balkanizing or censoring the Internet to support their regimes.

There are parallels to some Zhuangist themes in Nietzsche: the skepticism about the adequacy of our conceptualizations of the world and of value; the warnings against conventional moralities as constricting, and the awareness of how the application of ethical judgment to others can be a means of asserting power over them (The Genealogy of Morals).