Sentence examples for was asserting a from inspiring English sources

The artist was asserting a moral right under the guise of an economic right.

She was asserting a distinction between personal authenticity and emotional exhibitionism.

Now, in the court brief, the Justice Department was asserting a power to wiretap without first obtaining a warrant.

In a piece of choreography that infuriated China, ASEAN members complained one after the other about the heavy-handed way their neighbour was asserting a claim over the South China Sea.

The plurality's "bright-line" rule would extend the Warrant Clause of the Fourth Amendment to every "closed, opaque container," without regard to size, shape, or whether common experience would suggest that the owner was asserting a privacy interest in the contents.

On these points Xunzi was asserting a fundamental disagreement with the thinkers that are now often called Legalists.

The landowners seem to be asserting a power to exclude that they do not possess.

With recent policy changes -- incremental but significant when taken together -- Taiwan is asserting a separate identity.

As MPHJ has demonstrated, this is not very difficult when a patent holder is asserting a broad claim.

They're asserting a liberal muscularity of readiness to take action in the face of a verifiable immediate threat.

By gathering, by occupying, they are asserting a shared humanity against atomizing development and the globalized shopping mall.