assert oneself

Example Sentences

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There is also the little matter of will: bubbling up from within, that profoundly inegalitarian drive to stand out, to assert oneself in the face of anonymity and death.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2012

But the courage to assert oneself dangerously for a moment in the spotlight is different from what is required to build less flashy careers or coherent lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

How is one to intimidate, persuade, resist, assert oneself against them?

From Victory An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph

One had to say something if only to assert oneself against that wearisome, passionless and crushing uproar. 

From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Conrad, Joseph

I believe in such a place as London unless one has resolution to assert oneself people think one is a sort of shadow.

From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner