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Example sentences for "assert their"

  • It made alliances with the towns in the territories of the Bishop of Basel, and enabled them to assert their independence.

  • They declared, Froment tells us, that they had not struggled and fought for more than thirty years to assert their liberties, in order to make themselves the vassals of their allies or of anyone in the wide world.

  • They took advantage of the rivalries between the heads of the two Minsters and the Emperor's bailiff to assert their independence, and had passed laws subordinating the ecclesiastical authorities to the secular rule.

  • Calvinist ministers traversed the West and the South almost unhindered, encouraging the people to assert their liberties.

  • Even those persons cured through the instrumentality of some woman were ready when the hour came to assert their belief in her indebtedness to the devil for that knowledge.

  • The house determined to assert their privilege; and they replied to Sir Francis by a vote that he should be committed to the Tower, on the speaker's warrant, for a libel on the commons.

  • Soon after the coronation of Harold Harefoot, they received a letter purporting to come from their mother, Emma, widow of Knut, inviting them to assert their claim to their father's throne.

  • Edmund had chosen to renounce the throne and embrace a religious life; but the next in age, Edgar and Alexander, were spirited princes, and eager to assert their right.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also stated; assert itself; assert their; biographical note; blue clay; built ship; eyes and; five days; human frailty; hundred knights; its members; lady fair; long intervals; much grown; national income; other night; outward bound; popular vote for five; primary cause; save that; should fall; sleeping apartment; you suppose