6 sentences with 'assert'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assert and other words derived from it.
• « The Greeks held that the two ways in which a man could overcome his rivals and assert his virtue were battle and public argument and argumentation. »
• « Originally, the archbishops of cities such as Alexandria and Damascus were of comparable importance to the Roman archbishop, but over time the Roman archbishops sought to assert their authority over the entire Western church hierarchy. »
• « When the western empire fell, the archbishops of Rome had begun their attempts to assert their authority over the church (however, they would not succeed even in the west for many centuries). These assertions were never accepted in the East, where it was the emperor who had the final say in matters of religious doctrine. »
• « By the mid-10th century, the kings of the Scandinavian lands began to assert their control and reign in Viking raids. »
• « Over the centuries the papacy struggled, and often failed, to assert its control over the Church as an institution and to keep the pretensions of kings in check. »
• « In short, Queen Isabella exemplified the tendency of Renaissance rulers to assert greater power over their respective kingdoms than did the monarchs of earlier times. »