assert
Example Sentences
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Success could yield more receptive audiences for China’s efforts to expand its economic reach, assert its interests and challenge the U.S. for global leadership.
Karl Marx asserted that “philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world . . . the point, however, is to change it.”
What quickly became nonnegotiable was the fact that no princely state could go rogue and assert its own independence.
English clubs have not only asserted their financial strength.
From Barron's
Then he telegraphed his core anxiety about the selection—that candidates “say everything I want to hear” during interviews, only to assert their independence once they have been confirmed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
