Example Sentences

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And it's where, over the last 10 days or so, some trends have been asserting themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2016

In recent years, however, Dame Sibyl's subjects have been asserting an unwonted degree of independence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mexican-Americans have been asserting their rights with increasing militance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Enron's greatest failure may have been asserting that it could offset major risks by buying assets like utilities and then developing and trading complex financial instruments around them.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Is not Lucretius glorying in the notion that the gods do not trouble themselves with mortals, while you have been asserting that ‘The Deity’ troubles Himself even with the souls of heathens?”

From Phaethon by Kingsley, Charles