How to Use reassertion in a Sentence

reassertion

noun

• Or will the story be about the reassertion of democratic values?
  — The Editors, Curbed, 11 Jan. 2021
• For Will and Jada, though, the high wire act of confession is, naturally, a reassertion of power.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• Its organizers made clear that the march was not a commemoration, but a reassertion of the demands made at the memorial in 1963.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
• Biden's message to the world is a reassertion of American leadership to address climate change.
  — Rick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2021
• But Biden's reassertion of US leadership was welcome in Europe.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 17 June 2021
• For many Americans these actions embody a return to the values of a safer, surer time—the reassertion of principles going back to the Founding Fathers.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Putin’s confrontation with the West over Ukraine follows a familiar cycle in Russian history of loss and reassertion.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• For Islamic State, the attack on the prison was a reassertion of the group’s ability to carry out large-scale violence and threaten a high-value facility held by U.S.-backed forces.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• The move signals a reassertion of control by Murdoch, who bought the Journal in 2007 and quickly took editorial command of the publication.
  — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• What’s poised to change with the introduction of a national digital coin is the government’s reassertion of its primacy over the tech giants that currently reign.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2020
• This movie poster almost looks like a Kehinde Wiley portrait, a radical reassertion of tradition, a disruption of the narrative we’ve been sold.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Finally, and most ominously, Mr. Xi has deployed the full force of Chinese nationalism to support the reassertion of his country’s power and to complete its reunification.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 22 June 2021
• In government and higher education, the reassertion of preferences for white people continued for decades.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The only realistic diplomatic solution is some kind of reassertion of the status quo that existed before the war, coupled with diplomatic assurances for both sides.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
• The hearings’ spectacle of competence — of authority and accountability, and the reassertion of truth in a multi-reality country — can’t help but soothe.
  — Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• Earl Sweatshirt’s music is an exercise in opacity; the continual reassertion of Blackness needs no translation.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Exhaustion with migration is surely an important driver of the shift, but so is an overall reassertion of national identities, if not outright nationalism, after years of campaigning against meddling by the European Union.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• The intervention of state police and correctional officers is shown via harrowing surveillance footage and graphic photography, showing the deadly assault and brutal reprisals -- a savage reassertion of authority and the status quo.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
• Rubio has declared that markets should serve human values, called for a reassertion of the common good over market ideology, and explicitly demanded that the United States adopt an industrial policy to further the national interest.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
• For many of Russia’s elites, the crash signaled the president’s reassertion of control and highlighted the ominous consequences of disloyalty in an increasingly authoritarian state with a long history of jailing, killing or poisoning its critics.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• In September, an internal committee recommended that top engineers report to the commercial-airplane division’s chief engineer—in theory, a reassertion of expertise against the bottom-line mind-set that Stan Sorscher and others deplored.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• Major developing countries are not only indispensable partners in tackling climate change and preventing global economic turmoil but also in managing China’s rise and Russia’s reassertion of power.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Ultimately more destructive is Xi’s reassertion of communist principles in economic management.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• While some designers worked with this new tool on various levels, perhaps the most powerful response was a reassertion of the hand, with materials being crunched and sculpted into beautiful tactile volumes.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024