Sentence examples for use it to assert from inspiring English sources

Just as the English once used cricket to assert the ideology of empire – to play the game honourably, said Lord Harris, governor general of Bombay and a former captain of Kent, "is a moral lesson in itself" – so Indians now use it to assert the brash, go-getting, commercial values of the new, upwardly mobile India.

The great Romantic essayists – Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle – used it to assert the value of the individual human voice in a world increasingly felt to be dominated by "abstraction".

The prosecution used it to assert that they were in it together and had a common purpose.

Edgy electronic music has been an important part of the underground fashion world for a while; what's changing is that big brands are starting to notice, and using it to assert their relevance.

Some critics on cable television talk shows dwell on it, while others, on blogs or in e-mail messages, use it to falsely assert that Mr. Obama is a Muslim or, more fantastically, a terrorist.

Conservative groups have opposed the treaty, asserting that feminists could use it to impose their agenda on sovereign nations.

Companies would have to clear many more legal hurdles before deciding to release new products out of fear of being sued because someone uses it to infringe on copyrights, he asserts.

"I would not be surprised if Putin and his team actually used it again to assert their old platitudes discrediting leading human rights activists," said Tanya Lokshina, of Human Rights Watch Russia.

For example, if an object is unappropriated, we can use it without asserting property rights over it.

Our misapprehensions especially matter because you're often required to assert your right before you can use it; you're unlikely to assert something you don't know you have.

Instead of -ŏ -yo) Koreans sometimes use -ji -yo) to assert the speaker's involvement.