Sentence examples for wishing to assert from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, emerging nations wishing to assert their growing wealth and prestige have made a point of acquiring aircraft carriers.

"This is the fantasy of a provincial security agency down in Kerman wishing to assert its national importance.

Republicans wishing to assert their political independence in tough races have picked up Democratic talking points against the House-passed budget plan written by Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, especially the budget's plan for Medicare.

Not wishing to assert himself too vigorously in an institution whose president had been, since 1939, his dynamic older brother Nelson, David at first confined his interests to the museum's garden, which had been laid out along Fifty-fourth Street where two of the Rockefeller houses used to stand.

Those wishing to assert the truth of the kinetic theory, and hence of an atomic theory, had a case but also faced problems.

Some poets of color feel that Goldsmith is subtly denying selves that they wish to assert and explore.

Was Patty aware, from the very beginning, of how her earnest beau might some day wish to assert himself, and how that might turn out?

It is merely evidence that someone, when in possession of a spray can, wished to assert their belief in the millionaire former premier's mendacity.

No one would presumably wish to deny that art can and should give us pleasure, but few would wish to assert that pleasure is all that it should give us.

Consequently, many loyal Anglicans wished to assert that the Church of England was not dependent on the state and that it gained its authority from the fact that it taught Christian truth and its bishops were in the apostolic succession (i.e., able to trace their authority and office back in an unbroken line to the Apostles).

For the Americans, Turkey, with its 62m people, is still a necessary ally in a combustible part of the world and if that means turning a blind eye to the suppression of those among Turkey's 15m Kurds (the figure is vague) who wish to assert their identity, too bad.