"assertion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Party officials who lead the national government, while publicly condemning the attacks, dispatched soldiers to restore order but resisted opposition calls for a forceful assertion of the central government's authority to halt the violence.
- But his signature contributions to the policies of the Bush administration have had more to do with his forceful assertion of wide presidential powers in wartime.
- I insist that he is here (indicative, a forceful assertion of the fact that he is here)
- Notwithstanding Flanagan's stream of forceful assertions, "Girl Land" is a dusty, empty place, bearing little resemblance to your 21st-century daughter's colorful, noisy, vibrant life.
- It was also a forceful assertion of his dominance of the government's legal and law enforcement establishment, a position of power all of his predecessors have sought, but few ever obtained.
- He never made a forceful, positive assertion; he was the dispassionate seeker of truth.
- Sharp swings, from awkward constraint and self-deprecation to forceful assertion, shape not only Ms. Wood's conversation but also her dance.
- That trio, which builds from lyricism to forceful assertion to fearful flight, expresses well the course of an attempted seduction.
- In outlining the general concessions made by the N.B.A., Stern said they were made in response to "your union's forceful assertion of your concerns."
- Not This Time," by Max Boot (Op-Ed, Feb. 13): The Bush administration is committed to the forceful assertion of American primacy in the world.
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