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Example sentences for "reassertion"

Lexicographically close words:
reassembled; reassembling; reassert; reasserted; reasserting; reasserts; reassigned; reassignment; reassume; reassumed
  1. Popillius was to be the witness to all men of the reality of this reassertion of the palladium of Roman liberty.

  2. The ugliness then disappears, and only the reassertion of the old habit and demand can make us regard him as in any way extravagant.

  3. Every human reform is the reassertion of the primary interests of man against the authority of general principles which have ceased to represent those interests fairly, but which still obtain the idolatrous veneration of mankind.

  4. It is but one reassertion of the genius of the old South.

  5. There is a strong reassertion of the value of emotion, imagination, and enthusiasm.

  6. The reaction which was bound to accompany the triumph of Pseudo-classicism, as a reassertion of those instincts in human nature which Pseudo-classicism disregarded, took the form of a distinct Romantic Revival.

  7. Let the blame rest with those who have forced upon our history the alternative of a reassertion of the truth, or the shame of noble names which have not deserved it at our hands.

  8. Reassertion of the independence of the realm.

  9. Even before the Flemish rising, the reassertion of high sacerdotal doctrine in the bull Ausculta, fili had renewed the strife between Boniface and the French king.

  10. Winchelsea, though broken in health, looked forward in his banishment to the renewal of the alliance of baronage and clergy, and to the reassertion of hierarchical ideals.

  11. Yet in this connection it is very necessary to remember that the reassertion of the patriarchate was as necessary a stage in human development as the maternal stage.

  12. As the husband and father continued to gain in power, with the reassertion of individual interests, it was inevitable that the mother should lose the authority she had held, under the free social organisation of the undivided clan.

  13. Within the large and undivided family of the clan the restricted family became gradually re-established by a reassertion of individual interests.

  14. We may note in this change of residence the creeping in of changes which inevitably led in time to the decay of the maternal family and the reassertion of the patriarchal authority of the father.

  15. The special rules of the first figure are merely a reassertion in another form of the Dictum de Omni et Nullo.

  16. On this side of the question there is nothing new to be said--reassertion of a refuted argument does not constitute fresh proof.

  17. Still more from a theoretical standpoint is the reassertion of the curative value of the oral administration of yeast in various cutaneous disorders.

  18. It remains then for Christianity to claim the new truth and meet the new demands by a fearless reassertion of its doctrine of God.

  19. For after his reference to the destruction of mankind, the deity proceeds to fix the chief duty of man, either as a preliminary to his creation, or as a reassertion of that duty after his rescue from destruction by the Flood.

  20. The comparison is justified whether we regard the Sumerian speech as a direct preliminary to man's creation, or as a reassertion of his duty after his rescue from destruction by the Flood.

  21. The reassertion of this homage, under Aethelstan, in 926, which occurs in one MS.

  22. The Republic of Plato is an embodiment of that Platonic reassertion or preference, of Platonism, as the principle of a society, ideal enough indeed, yet in various degrees practicable.

  23. A plain and unmistakable reassertion of this principle of unified control, which I have always been advised was the intention of the Congress to apply, is necessary to increase the efficiency of our merchant fleet.

  24. The reassertion of this principle, especially in reference to North America, is at this day but the promulgation of a policy which no European power should cherish the disposition to resist.

  25. They were sufficiently alert to resent the government of the Crown, and in 1668 the majority of the settlers acquiesced in the reassertion of authority by Massachusetts.

  26. This was the mere reassertion of an old claim, for James I.

  27. The beginning of a new dynasty may well have been marked by a reassertion of the new royal power over Lower Egypt, which may have lapsed somewhat under the rule of the later kings of the Ist Dynasty.

  28. Here a priestly dynasty continued to reign until, two centuries later, the troubles and misfortunes of Egypt seemed to afford an opportunity for the reassertion of the exiled Theban power.


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