Sentence examples for use to assert from inspiring English sources

"They wanted to buy something that they could use to assert against someone else," he wrote in one.

Why? BECAUSE they wanted to buy something that they could use to assert against someone else.

2. One of the main points of Acts 16:16-40 is that God is more powerful than even the world's strongest political and legal systems, as well as all the tools they use to assert their dominance (such as laws, prisons, shame, and corporeal punishment).

The Second Sex continues to prove relevant to both today's third feminist wave and transgendered individuals for having refuted the essentialism of biological determinism that held gender as defined at birth, and replacing it with the theoretical framework that a later generation will use to assert that gender is a construct subject to choice.

I used to assert proudly that my husband and I were both virgins when we married.

Peter Marks, his predecessor, used to assert that there was unanimous support within the Co-op for expansion in banking.

It also characterised Taiping as a rock, meaning it could not be used to assert territorial claims over surrounding waters.

Breivik and other neo-Nazis used to assert racial superiority; now they claim an existential threat from Islamic culture.

This produced eucharistic exclusion, used to assert the primacy of the Church of England, especially among followers of the Oxford movement.

Spreadeagled poses in humans and animals have always been used to assert dominance, and are most often displayed by men.

Growing up in India, I developed a keen awareness of how dietary taboos around meat could be speciously used to assert caste or religious superiority, often violently.