0 to behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance, or power and earns you respect from others:
1 to state an opinion or claim a right forcefully:
[ + that clause ] The companies have asserted that everything they did was appropriate.
Several members of Congress called upon the president to assert leadership.
You have to learn to speak up and assert yourself at meetings, or you’ll never get anywhere.
Tough new policies are needed if the authorities are to assert control over a crime-ridden city.
The prime minister asserted that he had no intention of resigning.
He made a special appearance on television asserting that the allegations against him were false.
The attempt to discredit sectarian practices asserted the professionalism of regular medicine by implicitly disavowing its curious past as well as asserting its clinical present.
Claims such as 'the table is square', or 'the earth is round', typically have the function of asserting that certain facts obtain in the world.
The analysis tracks both the number of stories and whether the balance of commentary in each story asserts or denies the existence of a mandate.
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