Sentences with phrase «asserting power over another person»

Being late can be understood as a method for asserting your power over another person.

Sexual assault is not about sex, but is an act of asserting power over another person, regardless of a perpetrator's gender or sexual orientation (Groth, Burgess, & Holmstrom, 1977).

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Socialists assert that wealthy people who own the means of production are able to exploit workers in order to make more money and become even richer, thereby increasing their power over the workers.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.