8 sentences with “asserted”

Spanish nobles came to despise their own kings and asserted their own sovereignty against the claims of the monarchy.

Enlightenment thinkers asserted that the best forms of government were those with rational laws aimed at serving the public interest.

Gobineau's Essay asserted that the European nobility had once been an immaculate "pure" example of a superior race legitimately ruling over social inferiors born of an inferior race.

Instead, popes like Gregory slowly but surely asserted their authority by creating mutually beneficial relationships with kings and overseeing the expansion of Christian missionary work.

One such institution was the English parliament, which strongly asserted its control over taxation, a role played in France by several different parliaments scattered throughout the kingdom.

In a major break with the past, Enlightenment thinkers increasingly asserted that there was a real physical universe that could be understood with the methods of science, in contrast to the false invented universe of "magic" suitable only for myths and storytelling.

The movement elected a new pope, Martin V, and asserted that ecclesiastical councils could and should have ultimate authority over papal appointments - this concept was known as the via consilii, the existence of a great council with binding powers over church leadership.

Louis XIV asserted that "L etat, c est moi" - "I am the state". His argument was that there was no distinction between his own identity and the government of France itself, and his actions were by definition for the good of France (which was not always true from an objective point of view, as his wars clearly demonstrated).