Sentence examples for wanting to assert from inspiring English sources

Lloyd makes a vibrant lampoon, as if wanting to assert Pinter's up-to-date credentials.

The prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, wanted to thwart their purchase by Shintaro Ishihara, then governor of Tokyo, a right-winger wanting to assert Japanese sovereignty more aggressively.

The extraordinary irritation these seem to provoke may say something about Britain's declining role in the world; it may say something about the individual complainants growing older, and wanting to assert some control over a fast-changing language.

The government, concerned about the impression that it was relying too heavily on outside military forces, and wanting to assert control over the relief operation, set the deadline for three months after the tsunami struck.

A16 Indonesia to Expel Troops Indonesia, sensitive to the impression that it was relying too heavily on outside military forces and wanting to assert control over the relief operation, announced that all foreign troops assisting in the relief operation must leave in three months.

That feeling of wanting revenge or wanting to assert your rightness or your victimhood -- depending on the depth of your wounding -- can take days, weeks, months and even years to dissipate.

I want to assert three well-established old ones.

One is that the bank wanted to assert its independence.

Everyone has multiple identities they want to assert.

"He wants to assert some leadership," one of these people said.

The group may have also wanted to assert itself after the Shalit deal.