Sentence examples for urge to assert from inspiring English sources

And so there is an increasing pursuit of identity and a stronger urge to assert distinctions that have nothing to do with the state.

But it's also, I believe, because we have a deep-rooted urge to assert our status by killing them and owning their body parts.

But you begin to see how they share with his narrating persona and his fictional creations a heightened sense of self and mission, an urge to assert themselves in the world, an awareness of the grand sweep of history on the one hand and the ever-present threat of ridiculousness on the other.

"Pan" is like that; Glahn and Edvarda torment themselves as much as they torment each other — Glahn does things like tossing one of Edvarda's shoes into the water "whether for joy at her being so near or from some urge to assert myself and remind her of my existence".

** "Pan" is like that; Glahn and Edvarda torment themselves as much as they torment each other — Glahn does things like tossing one of Edvarda's shoes into the water "whether for joy at her being so near or from some urge to assert myself and remind her of my existence".

At the time of the Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini was the most vocal proponent among the senior Shia clerics of velayat-e faqih, while he was opposed at the time by his peer and rival Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoi, who disagreed with that interpretation of Islamic law, and dissented from the urge to assert clerical dominion over civil society.

A Lancashire dairy farmer has joined forces with Greenpeace to launch a challenge to fracking in England, urging landowners to assert what the charity claims is a legal right to veto drilling underneath their properties.

Ms. Landro's column also said that a Seattle Times reporter had "overstepped the bounds of ethical reporting" by "functioning as a de facto adviser to the plaintiffs and urging them to assert various claims against the hospital".

A19 Intelligence Chief Is Confirmed The Senate confirmed John D. Negroponte as the country's first director of national intelligence, with key senators urging him to assert his power quickly over the nation's 15 spy agencies.

Meanwhile, Israeli coalition members have backed the project and urge the government to assert its "sovereignty" over the sacred site.

"We urge the Senate to assert its constitutionally assigned role in the judicial nomination process.