Sentence examples for used to asserting from inspiring English sources

For someone used to asserting his will it must have been particularly frustrating to stand by impotently while his wife succumbed to terminal illness.

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.

In addition, some modern Muslim scholars have more recently cast doubt on the veracity of the saying, or hadith, used to assert Aisha's young age.

If the two troopers stand trial, the picture will be used to assert that officers were encouraged to use race in selecting whom to stop, frisk and arrest, said Jack Arsenault, who represents Mr. Kenna.

Dueling jurisdictions want control of the case, and the new evidence was used to assert that Virginia was the best venue for the first trial of the pair, who could be eligible for the death penalty.