Sentences with 'reasserted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reasserted and other words derived from it.
• « The popes reasserted their control of the papal states in central Italy, in some cases (such as those of Julius II, r. 1503 - 1513) personally going to the battlefield to lead troops against the armies of both foreign invaders and rival Italians. »
• « The nobles reasserted their independence and Russia existed in a state of civil war (or armed anarchy, depending on one's perspective) for decades. »
• « When William IV was presented with the constitution, he simply refused to accept it (he called the position offered a "crown of the gutter"), and one by one the kings of the smaller German states reasserted their control over German lands. »
• « Angered both by events in Hungary and by the growth of open dissent with the Soviet system in the USSR itself, Nikita Khrushchev reasserted control. Some notable works of art that hinted at dissent were allowed to filter through (until Khrushchev was overthrown by hardliners in 1964, in any case), but change on a larger scale was out of the question. »