Example sentences of "to assert [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When James VI came to manhood and attempted to assert himself over both the Borderers and the disruptive Highland clans , he tended for a while to concentrate on the Highlands rather than the Lowlands . |
| 2 | Where it did not , how far did it allow him to assert himself against the trustee and the property he had acquired in place of the object under trust ? |
| 3 | Unfortunately for Charles , the Director 's job turned out to be beyond his actually rather limited administrative abilities and , unable to assert himself in that field , he busied himself in the teaching side of things . |
| 4 | More significantly , Anderson 's hesitancies undermine his attempts to assert himself in the situation . |
| 5 | I take as typical of my difficulty a sentence from item six in your summary of your campaign : ‘ The need for the silent majority to assert itself in order that politicians and judges fully understand the true feelings of the public . ’ |
| 6 | The result was to be a House of Commons with a greater legitimacy in the eyes of MPs and electors and one with an ability to assert itself in its relationship with government . |
| 7 | The cabinet ministers , parliamentarians and civil servants in London knew it only from its press image and inability to assert itself against mounting agitation . |
| 8 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 9 | Or the shift from ‘ producer capitalism ’ to consumer capitalism , in which , for example , the moment of distribution has come to assert itself versus the moment of production . |
| 10 | The close geographical proximity between the Japanese home islands and Korea resulted in Japanese determination to assert herself in Korea so as to ensure the more effective defence of Japan herself ; in addition , it was hoped to exploit Korea economically . |
| 11 | By the late 1880s , however , Japan had growing interests in mainland Asia , and there was a danger that Japan 's attempts to assert herself in Korea and in Manchuria would bring her into direct confrontation with the expanding Russian empire . |
| 12 | It can give them a chance — certainly often seized by widows in the past — to assert themselves with genuine dignity and authority in the public world . |
| 13 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
| 14 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 15 | In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen . |
| 16 | Although — most fortunately — not everybody who feels the need to assert themselves against rules becomes a mass-murderer , there is undoubtedly today a widespread feeling that all rules and regulations are onerous and provocative . |
| 17 | One of the ways in which wars start is by nations trying to assert themselves by insulting , humiliating and attacking other countries . |
| 18 | In the first months of Whitelaw rule , strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast . |
| 19 | What is quite clear is that after the death of Lanfranc the English monks felt free to assert themselves in ways that would have been impossible while Lanfranc lived . |
| 20 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 21 | My personal belief is that sadism may have one or both of two components : a need to dominate — to put another person into an inferior position and to assert oneself by inflicting pain — or a need to destroy arising from some inner hatred of self and/or others in general . |