Sentence examples for was to assert from inspiring English sources

There she was to assert herself against the Austrasian magnates for the next 30 years.

Mr Miliband's was to assert the authority he is considered to lack, which he failed to do.

The point of this grotesque catalogue was to assert that the Eighth Amendment prohibited methods of execution that were also forms of torture — nothing more.

Another Lib Dem policy was to assert that by 2020, nobody would pay tax on their first £12,500 of income.

The intention and effect of maps such as this was to assert control over space as part of the process of achieving racial apartheid.

Thus was born the Ninth Amendment, whose purpose was to assert the principle that the enumerated rights are not exhaustive and final and that the listing of certain rights does not deny or disparage the existence of other rights.

To assert that the U.S. must lead globally is to assert that everybody else must follow.

There are multiple purposes to political speech, only one of which is to assert truths.

The challenge will be to assert a big role without precipitating a clash with Beijing.

The rebrand has been to assert that the brand is relevant locally.

To oppose its core is to assert life, will, and memory.