Synonym: affirm, declare, insist on, pronounce, state. Similar words: dessert, asset, assess, desert, insert, assemble, assembly, passenger. Meaning: [ə'sɜːt] v. 1. state categorically 2. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true 3. insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized 4. assert to be true.
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61. It would be unrealistic to assert that the activity is risk free.
62. And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
63. In the community tank you can observe the pecking order being established when sub-adults begin to assert themselves.
64. You have a certain window of opportunity to assert yourself.
65. If he or she asks you to pick something up, assert yourself or defuse the situation but don't bend down.
66. After 1947, Nehru began to assert his supremacy and sack party chiefs who opposed him.
67. I had to assert the authority of my casting vote.
68. You need to be selective and judge when it is appropriate to assert your rights.
69. Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers.
70. He would assert this power, however, in a way limited only to Chicago.
71. Sinhala people assert that Sri Lanka belongs exclusively to the Sinhala Buddhists.
72. Even before his reforms the old Supreme Soviet had begun to assert itself.
73. Although markets are treated globally, they assert that overseas operations act simply as delivery pipelines to a unified global market.
74. Abusers are often suspicious and jealous, suffer from low self-esteem and need to assert themselves.
75. It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. Nathaniel Branden
76. It was an awkward way for Congress to assert its Constitutional right and duty to declare war.
77. Government reports assert that Captain Lorenzo hanged himself in his cell.
78. It would be hypocritical to assert that the public sector provides better standards.
79. The building had one of those brightly timbered exteriors which assert more age than they probably possess.
80. Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity, those problems have been ironed out.
81. Assert yourself and tell him to shove off, or just ignore him and put the phone down.
82. Dependent and insecure, they may find it difficult to join in and to assert themselves.
83. Working men of earlier generations had less need to assert who or what they were. Sentencedict.com
84. It is easy enough to assert that active transport across membranes occurs, but much harder to explain how.
85. I had to rediscover and assert my Jamaicanness but qualify it with references to my London upbringing.
86. Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
87. He was now in the position to assert himself when openings for public office occurred.
88. He can concede that he has shifted positions on major issues, just as the Republicans assert.
89. To assert that all normal human behaviour is culturally moulded does not necessarily prove that it is also culturally determined.
90. Power gives us the ability to control, to choose and to assert our independence.
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