verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
establish/assert/impose/stamp your authority (= show people that you have authority )
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The new manager was anxious to establish her authority.
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Robertson quickly stamped his authority on the team.
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The State Department pressed him to take bolder steps to assert his authority.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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He also asserted that the day of the cottage industry was over.
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Pliny also asserted that the mathematician and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had predicted the Aegospotami meteorite fall.
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They also asserted the supremacy of the people over parliament.
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Gwynn also asserted that club officials allowed his weight to influence their projection of his playing performance.
confidently
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Don Juan asserted confidently that he had the firm support of numerous followers.
■ NOUN
authority
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The government's response was to use the Freikorps and other repressive means to assert its authority .
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Congress began to assert its authority .
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Oftel is still trying to assert its authority .
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I had to assert the authority of my casting vote.
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Not one of nature's bandleaders, he seldom asserted his authority and took part in some highly unsatisfying performances and albums.
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New disciplinary measures and recommendations asserted his authority over clerical and lay Catholics.
claim
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In practice, of course, there was no chance of Edward 11I successfully asserting his claim in 1328.
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The central question in the case was whether Burroughs could assert a patent claim before it knew whether the drug worked.
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Gloucester was more successful in asserting his claims to the stewardship of Clitheroe and its members.
control
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The approach allowed Hostetler to call plays and assert control .
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In education, parents are beginning to assert control over the schools.
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After a two-year investigation, the Food and Drug Administration asserted control over tobacco products by deeming them drugdelivery devices.
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Many states assert powerful control over their news media.
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But Great Groups require a more flexible kind of leadership that has more to do with facilitating than with asserting control .
existence
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For what object of thought is one referring to when one is asserting the existence of men?
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Dodds' argument from silence asserts the existence of a doctrine not substantiated by available evidence.
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Lyotard has thus asserted the existence of two alternative economies of desire.
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Moral pluralism asserts the existence of a multitude of incompatible but morally valuable forms of life.
identity
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Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity , those problems have been ironed out.
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Growing up black involves asserting an individual identity , and an ethnic identity.
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Today, orchestral musicians wish to assert their identities again, to escape the thrall of the baton at last.
independence
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But she sought not so much to break a taboo as to assert her independence from the male yoke.
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Power gives us the ability to control, to choose and to assert our independence .
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It seems that this was their means of asserting their continuing independence of Moscow.
power
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Catastrophe, as discussed in Chapter 13, can be linked with inevitability, to assert dramatic power .
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People have become used to employing violence as a means of resolving conflict or asserting power over others.
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It seemed that Morrissey was asserting his power over the media in order to make a point.
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He would assert this power , however, in a way limited only to Chicago.
right
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Stickers are available throughout the county to help squeezed out pedestrians assert their rights .
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Lileikis has tried unsuccessfully to assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer allegations in the suit.
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Mrs Armitage's heir is already asserting his rights in the matter but that is not my concern.
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After he had gone his two sons asserted their right to the throne, and each tried to be made king.
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He is entitled to assert his supposed right on reasonably equal terms.
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It was an awkward way for Congress to assert its Constitutional right and duty to declare war.
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The conventional view, then as now, was that Lanfranc had carried all before him in asserting the rights of Canterbury.
superiority
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The new pope did not share the general goodwill towards Frederick, and wanted to assert the superiority of pope over emperor.
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There, Arazi asserted his superiority , prompting Corals to quote him 4-1 to complete the Kentucky-Epsom Derby double.
■ VERB
begin
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Gradually the visiting midfield began to assert themselves.
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Congress began to assert its authority.
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But after 1947, Nehru began to assert his supremacy and sack party chiefs who opposed him.
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In the community tank you can observe the pecking order being established when sub-adults begin to assert themselves.
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But when, however, the expansion slows down, the gravitational effect begins to assert itself.
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In the first months of Whitelaw rule, strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast.
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But the logic of the situation now began to assert itself.
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Even before his reforms the old Supreme Soviet had begun to assert itself.
continue
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The party will continue to assert itself and severely punish political dissent.
try
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Oftel is still trying to assert its authority.
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Lileikis has tried unsuccessfully to assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer allegations in the suit.
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Corbett tried to assert himself once more.
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Lucy Honeychurch's generation are trying to assert their right to choose for themselves the path of their lives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"It's a fairness issue," she asserted.
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After 1947, Nehru began to assert his supremacy and sack party chiefs who opposed him.
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If women are to have equal opportunity, they must loudly assert their ability to do all traditional "male' jobs.
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Professor Sykes has asserted that the skeleton, which was said to be man's first ancestor, is in fact a fake.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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He is entitled to assert his supposed right on reasonably equal terms.
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Mr. Collins asserted that they had either such a right or at least a right that Lautro should consider whether to hear them.
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The Church asserts that human beings are incarnated spirits: souls in bodies.
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There exists today widespread propaganda which asserts that socialism is dead.
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They assert that the student has been incapacitated by the power differential, and must be in need of their protection.