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assert English

Meaning assert meaning

What does assert mean?
Definitions in simple English

assert Verb

— When someone asserts something, they say it with confidence. He asserted that he was innocent in the Chi Omega Murders.

assert

— verb state categorically — verb (= affirm, swear) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true Before God I swear I am innocent — verb insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized Women should assert themselves more! — verb assert to be true The letter asserts a free society

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affirm maintain declare allege claim aver insist state avow contend asseverate verify uphold swear say emphatically vow vindicate thrust swan say put forward profess impose force defend confirm coerce avouch testify stand up for require purport prove predicate oblige necessitate mandate make out establish constrain compel attest assure assert oneself win warrant vouch underwrite underpin tax

Conjugation assert conjugation

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assert · verb

Examples assert examples

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Simple sentences

Biologists assert the losses are severe.
How can you assert that?
Tabloids assert that the killer cucumber would have sodomised the mad cow.
European Protestantism departed from the Westminster Confession of Faith, which assert that the Pope is an Antichrist.

Movie subtitles

The main purpose of these visits was not so much to trade, but to assert Chinese supremacy.
The South must assert herself by force of arms.
They assert them by drinking beer and fighting duels.
I still assert that the culprit is a crazy sexual offender!
You should speak up more, and assert yourself.
With women. with women you have to assert yourself.
If only to assert your own authority and power.
To assert that much.
And then the jaws that are withdrawn, as if a person hasn't got a right to assert himself.
It must assert a fortune.
How can assert?
I did assert myself once or twice as a girl, but mother punished all such lapses from convention with exemplary severity.
Because I always had to assert myself.
I don't know who I am, and I never will if I don't assert myself.
Well, if that's the way you feel about it we'll be forced to assert our prerogative and search this room.
I believe that I incorporate the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.
How come can you assert such a thing?
We'll see whether I can assert myself.
I've got to assert myself sometime.
Assert yourself a little bit.
You plan to assert your innocence in court?
Do you want to assert that I've threatened you?
Same as we're entitled to have food and a roof. we assert our right to culture.
Another much neglected group. unable to assert its rights. in our affluent society. where only production counts. is the group of the disabled.
You missed your chance. You didn't assert yourself.
From now on, I'm going to assert my personality.
Assert your independence, Gussie.
Where nests your creed? I can think that there is some sand in the desert because knowledge trustworthy assert it.
Yes. If I were. Or rather if A were to produce a female and have her assert that she was betrothed to me.
They should learn to assert themselves.
She needs to assert herself.

News and current affairs

Americans will need to find ways to assert their narrative of democracy, freedom, and rights in a manner that respects diversity and the views of others.
First, the fighting itself may not be the cakewalk that some assert.
Always keen to assert the freedom to insult Muslims, the Dutch Freedom Party wants to ban all mosques.
NEW YORK - The most important contribution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 60 years ago, on December 10, 1948, was to assert a powerful idea: rights are universal.
Based on the experience of my foundations in countries like Russia, I assert that outside assistance can be effective.
Those who assert that China is on the wrong side of history in its communication policies--and that the Internet means eventual democratization--ought to temper their optimism.
It was possible to establish authority through collectivist myths, to assert your separate road against global trends, to molest neighbors in the teeth of international censure.
New brands can assert themselves by acquiring symbolic capital.
On the opposite side, followers of the Austrian School of economic thought, especially the ideas of Friedrich Hayek, assert that limited government and free enterprise form the only viable path to liberty and prosperity.
Equality of the sexes poses the gravest difficulties--particularly because Muslim girls in Britain increasingly assert it.
A sober assessment of this process leads me to assert that a more capable and united Europe will usher in a more effective Atlantic Alliance and not, as some believe, in American disengagement from European commitments.
If Fed Chair Janet Yellen has to assert her will over the FOMC for a while, so be it.
Many of these countries will look to the US as a strategic counterweight should China seek to assert local dominance.
Its statesmen used to assert that Germany had no independent foreign policy, only a European policy.
For that to happen, Mogherini must assert herself as a leader, backed by Juncker and the new European Council president, Donald Tusk.
When Muslims form a minority, they have tended to co-exist peacefully with other religions, but where their populations are substantial (as in Nigeria), they tend to assert themselves.
Eliminating it will not only help farmers and the West as it tries to curtail heroin use, but also Afghanistan's infant government as it struggles to assert its national authority against the warlords.
Based on that doubt, France - a nuclear power since 1960 - withdrew in 1966 from the Alliance's permanent centralized military command in order to assert its own deterrent capability.
The only way to resolve this problem is for NATO to assert its pacific intentions before the world.
The one thing that seems certain from the upcoming vote is that - barring any last-minute surprises - the billionaire Berlusconi will re-assert his hold over Italian politics.
So the US middle class has been doing much better than the statistical pessimists assert.
A peaceful, democratic dawn in Iraq, they assert, would soon break over other authoritarian Arab states as well.
As Iran seeks to assert its influence and interests, as well as those of its Shia allies, its dispute with the Security Council over its nuclear program has become closely tied to its regional ambitions.
As for Germany's ability to assert itself, there is not much evidence of it, despite the vigorous rhetoric.
Governments across Asia are concerned that China's rapidly accumulating power is emboldening it to assert territorial and maritime claims against neighbors stretching from Japan to India.
Today, whether it is Arunachal Pradesh or Taiwan or the Senkaku Islands or even the Spratlys, China is dangling the threat of force to assert its claims.

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