We seem to find it assertingits existence when the borough had been dismembered, and there was no longer any place for “the citizens.
Indeed we may go further, and say that he is very fond of asserting or suggesting his indebtedness when he is really dealing with his own funds.
Ephesus, asserting of himself, "that even to that hour he laboured, working with his own hands.
They fall back, as respects language, to that nearest to nature, at those moments when natural feeling is asserting its power over them the least equivocally.
Then I wrote to your Majesty the aforesaid letter, asserting that the ill-report concerning the mandarins of China was rather an invention of the Portuguese than a true report.
Upon this witnessasserting that he had told the truth, they took him to the prison and thrust both his feet in the stocks, put a chain about his neck, bound his hands, and set a Moro named Tumanpate to guard him.
When by chance any tradesman demurred, Jane was very indignant, asserting confidently that the vicar would pay for whatever he had when his dues came in.
Owen set the example, and Nat and Mike obeyed, but the others grumbled, asserting that the advantage to be gained was so slight that it was not worth while to exert themselves.
The former answered all objections by asserting that "if this section is altered in any way, it will curtail the great principles for which we contend.
The Second Church of Hartford immediately put forth a declaration, asserting that its Congregationalism was that of the old original New England type.
Buckle brought history into contempt by asserting that it could be analyzed and referred solely to intellectual laws and forces.
Weismann has therefore modified the Darwinian theory by asserting that there would be no development unless there were a spontaneous, innate tendency to variation.
Jesus does not defend himself from the charge of Sabbath-breaking by saying that the Sabbath is abrogated, but by asserting the true idea of the Sabbath as fulfilling a fundamental human need.
Passages asserting special efficacy of the atonement, in the case of the elect, are the following: Eph.
Irving, in our judgment, was rightly charged with asserting the sinfulness of Christ's human nature, and it was upon this charge that he was deposed from the ministry by the Presbytery in Scotland.
We reply to this reasoning by asserting that no dead thing can act, and that what we call involuntary spiritual energies are really unconscious or unremembered activities of the will.
For instance, he made a point of never asserting himself when he would gain more by keeping in the background; and in consequence many exalted personages valued him principally for his humility and simplicity, and because "he knew his place.
In society they not only disliked asserting themselves, but were actually retiring.
It is an hereditary aristocracy, assuming and asserting indefeasible, irrevocable rights and authority, wholly independent of the Nation.
I am warranted in asserting this, as I had it personally from M.
I have made my calculations on only sixteen millions and an half of revenue, still asserting that it was "very nearly, if not quite, seventeen millions.
That freedom, citizens, we may look upon as secure; for never yet did a whole nation join heart and hand in asserting its liberty, but it gained its object against all opposition.
Emerson tries to get on common ground with his audience by asserting that every man is a poet to some extent,[Footnote: See The Enchanter.
Most of them spurn popularity, asserting that they are too worthwhile to be appreciated.
The hero of John Davidson's Ballad in Blank Verse on the Making of a Poet soars to a monotheistic conception of his powers, asserting Henceforth I shall be God, for consciousness Is God.
Yet he perseveres in asserting that it is beyond all reasonable question what Jesus was; as though proven inaccuracies in all the narratives did not make the results uncertain.
The dialogue is so managed, as often to suggest what is false concerning me, yet without asserting it; so as to enable him to disown the slander, while producing its full effect against me.
This constant daily self-asserting literature of newspapers and periodicals is acting on us tremendously for good or for ill.
If the readers of to-day will turn back to Miss Edgeworth's Belinda, they will find that this style of manners, these assumptions and mode of asserting them, are no new things.
Now here comes Rome in our day asserting the kindness and generosity shown the Jews by their Popes, because these afforded them shelter in the Ghetto of the Holy City!
Luther died peacefully in the presence of friends, confessing, Christ and asserting his firm allegiance to the faith he had proclaimed with his last breath.
In thus unequivocally asserting that our existence beyond the tomb is one of distinct consciousness, revelation has taught us what we most desire and need to know.
The talk at the supper table arose from a man recently from Mankato, asserting that the scoundrels should be lynched, offering to bet $500 that they would be strung up before morning.
Origen widened the breach by asserting the eternal divinity of Christ, but at the same time maintaining also His subordination to the Father as a "secondary God.
The "monuments of classic genius" he despised, asserting that it was his wish to be unknown in this world and glorified in the next.
The Greek Catholic view coincides with Rome in asserting the divine origin of the Church.
He obtained a chair of philosophy at Jena, where he developed his doctrines of science, asserting that the problem of philosophy is to seek on what foundations knowledge rests.
He translated Simon's Critical History of the New Testament, and by asserting the right of free discussion drew down the wrath of the orthodox.
He was the legitimate heir to all its glory, and this too previous assumption got him imprisoned in Ham forasserting what he protested was his right.
This insensate mockery of a man is always asserting himself in some detestable fashion or other.
But it was not long before both in Russia and Japan public opinion veered to the point of asserting that he had caused peace to be made too soon and to the detriment of the interests of the nation in question.
Superstition seems, indeed, to be, next to the making of stone- weapons, the earliest method of asserting his superiority to the brutes which has occurred to that utterly abnormal and fantastic lusus naturae called man.
He claimed, also, the right of England to the sovereignty of the narrow seas, asserting that from time immemorial it had been undisputed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asserting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
