Sentence examples for way of asserting from inspiring English sources

"It was a way of asserting my gender," Long explains.

It is, above all, a way of asserting power.

It was a symbolic way of asserting his control over the camp against Jacobs and Wilbur.

Eventually he returned to landscape painting, largely as a way of asserting his Chinese roots.

- an endearing, if peculiar, way of asserting he and Rangers are not dead yet.

The trouble is that eventually reality has a way of asserting itself.

To assert that a given statement is true, they argue, is merely another way of asserting the statement itself.

That choice is a way of asserting her own intellectual abilities and rejecting racist claims of black inferiority.

To use mob rule and violence as way of asserting people's will is compromising the rule of law.

Class usually finds a way of asserting itself and, in those opening two sets, Gasquet looked formidable.

But a pronounced strain of cruelty meant his fondness for debate was usually a way of asserting his own authority.