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    Use "asserting" in a sentence

    asserting example sentences

    asserting


    1. They were solid, too, in asserting that no prohibition could prevent their exportation, when private people found any advantage in exporting them


    2. They were sophistical, too, perhaps, in asserting that the high price of exchange necessarily increased what they called the


    3. Martin wrote the majority opinion, asserting that Congress has the authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate the non-commerce (My comment: How can the Constitution support the Congress in regulating non-commerce behavior?) of someone who chooses not to buy health insurance


    4. Then we have Marx, whose main claim to fame was to dictate the end of history by asserting that man is the product of his machines and not vice versa, conveniently forgetting that any system that purports to explain everything, in reality explains nothing


    5. started asserting herself more in her life and at work!


    6. We can literal y save their life by asserting ourselves


    7. Yes, my cynicism had grown to the point that I could no longer think of anything other than he was deliberately calling at this time to get a rise out of me, or more probably, in some perverted sense best known to himself, he was asserting his perceived power over me


    8. The ruler of Milano, Ludovico Sforza, called Il Moro because of his dark complexion, had urged Carlos to make his move on the Kingdom of Napoles, asserting some claim Carlos had to that throne


    9. While correspondence theory says that it is about truth, asserting


    10. And they come close to asserting that the SPECT scan proves the existence of God, or, in the authors’ cross-cultural term, ‘absolute unitary being

    11. virtue has the potential be trumped by anyone else asserting that their judgment is in some


    12. ‘A spokeswoman for KOCS, [Keep Our Children Safe] Ms Irma Medlar, a respected secondary teacher, congratulated the councillors for their brave stance, saying it was intolerable that men should still be asserting their domination over women by wearing clothes that revealed the shape of their sexual organs


    13. Sport, like purely intellectual pursuits, should not be a tool for asserting dominance or superiority


    14. “No, I want him to sit in on this,” said Jane, asserting her authority over both men


    15. Do you not recall how the Scriptures begin by asserting that "In the beginning the Gods created the heavens and the earth"? This indicates that when that record was made the Trinity concept of three Gods in one had found lodgment in the religion of our forebears


    16. They had stanched the flow of blood, and the innate vitality of the barbarian was asserting itself


    17. But it was obvious they were asserting the last bit of freedom they had left — the one thing the guards couldn't take away


    18. Why would she put herself here of all places? Maybe it was her unconscious drive for self-preservation, asserting itself in the dream


    19. It stated the facts of the case in pseudo-legal terms, asserting that Duffy was Caleb’s natural child, as deposed in what it called a ‘deathbed statement’ by his mother, and was therefore entitled to consideration in the estate


    20. Asserting himself over all; it was a case of “Hitler uber alles”

    21. The figure stood firm and motionless as if it were asserting its authority over this empire of deceit and corruption


    22. But shortly after asserting control, the Chinese and British ceded their interest in Vietnam to France


    23. Since they had found out that he was here, they must have had some means of asserting his position


    24. and international public opinion by asserting that the disappeared


    25. There’s no way that what is really going on can be described by materialism except by lying, by asserting that e


    26. They are constantly asserting that modern missions at home or abroad do nothing, and that those who support them are little better than weak enthusiasts


    27. (c) Learn for another thing, the importance, let me rather say the necessity, of asserting boldly the supernatural element as an essential part of the Christian religion


    28. Not something like, ‘I want to be healed,’ but from the position of an already healthy person who can create by asserting this positive thought, well, let’s call it, ‘the matrix of one hundred percent health


    29. force asserting from the top of the chest


    30. But we yet persist in asserting that all the worldly business in which men are engaged is action

    31. But Krishn refutes this later by asserting that Self alone is the changeless and eternal Sanatan Dharm


    32. Because Allah gave him Surahs asserting Christ to be the Messiah but also a prophet equal to others under the name of “isa”; Adam the chosen of God; noah the prophet of God; Abraham the friend of God and Moses the one who spoke with God


    33. truth to Arjun in asserting that there is no death of what is true in all the three divisions of time- past, present, and future


    34. He extremely refused asserting that he was not our Master Jesus (cpth) and denied that strongly, yet they did not hear his utterance nay they killed and crucified him supposing him to be our Master Jesus (cpth)


    35. I inquired why this was inevitable, and they drew my attention to fashions in names, asserting that people's ages could generally be guessed by their Christian names


    36. When he parted the curtains, he witnessed Mother Nature asserting her authority


    37. Some are in fact rather passive and others have no problems asserting dominance


    38. And here she was asserting herself very much indeed, and positively asking him across a tea-table which was undoubtedly for the moment his, asking him straight out what, if anything, he did in the way of a trade, profession or occupation


    39. It's nature asserting itself


    40. I suppose he was fulfilling his role as master of the house by asserting his authority over her but, like most men, he didn't realize the best way to get answers was with kindness, not by frightening the poor girl

    41. moving and asserting themselves down the mountain


    42. so on, asserting the Real Self and not allowing the things on the lower plane of


    43. After asserting his love for democracy (!), Tamraz said he began what would become a long association with the CIA when they asked his help in freeing hostages taken around the time of the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241


    44. If you will stay in the middle of this struggle for true self-possession, not asserting your individuality but allowing it to flourish and to blossom -- bearing what you must bear by refusing to submit yourself to negative, self-betraying influences -- you will come to know the highest approval that Life can award


    45. The ones who managed to raise their own self-esteem, by asserting their own self-worth, and independence


    46. Simply asserting themselves over their larger neighbor; who had dominated them from birth


    47. Because this involves the implied use of the hand it symbolizes asserting or demonstrating superior


    48. prophecy, the symbolism is used poorly and is too well focused at asserting that rebuilding a


    49. lessons, without ever asserting that they are literally true


    50. Once again, asserting that any of this merely symbolized a



































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    Synonyms for "asserting"

    asserting declarative declaratory

    "asserting" definitions

    relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration