Sentence examples for was first asserted from inspiring English sources

The phrase "separate but equal" was first asserted by the supreme court in 1896, in Plessy v Ferguson.

The principle of judicial review was first asserted by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison (1803), when the court ruled that it had the authority to void national or state laws.

As a modern political entity, the statehood of Palestine was first asserted in 1988, following decades of contestation following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire following World War I. Statehood was more recently re-enforced in 2012 as it was granted "non-member observer state" status by the United National General Assembly United Nationss, 2012).

Bellows painted it in 1908, when New York was first asserting itself as a cultural and economic capital, just six years after Richard Morris Hunt's imposing Beaux-Arts façade of the Metropolitan Museum was completed, giving the city a museum as grand as it thought it deserved.

While Peruvians assert la Chalaca was first brought to life in the port city of Callao toward the end of the 19th century.

(This is after first asserting that his father lacked ego).

An art work as barometer: the power of the image Gaetano Pesce first asserted being as important to share as an ideology as a giant butt.

Suspicions were heightened when the Lujiang government first asserted that the images had been altered with Photoshop, then said the people in them were not county officials, period.

Her essential argument is that, unlike Mr. Obama, she has the foreign policy credentials to go up against Mr. McCain and win — a claim that has been dismissed by critics who assert that being first lady isn't remotely like being secretary of defense.

When discussing the use of health care services in relation to their health needs, women consistently asserted that they were first and foremost housewives and caretakers of their children and families.

Unaccountable, anonymous users who troll comments have plagued news sites ever since threads were first opened, and it's to assert some order that many sites resort to letting Facebook guard their comments.