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Example sentences for: asserted

How can you use “asserted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The missionary influence waned, and the royal court asserted its power, as well as its love of luxury.
McCain asserted that he'd become a contender.
But Roudinesco neither takes pleasure in nor makes intriguing sense of the fact that Lacan's theories "denounced the omnipotence of the ego in general, though he himself asserted the supremacy of his own."
Responding to the accusation of his main challenger in Iowa, Steve Forbes, that he hasn't taken a strong enough stance against abortion, Bush more firmly asserted that he "disapproves" of Roe v.
Truth , for instance, is helpfully defined in The Catholic Encyclopedia as the "accordance or conformity between what is asserted and what is," or "the conformity of intellection with being."