1.   Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity, those problems have been ironed out.

2.   Today, orchestral musicians wish to assert their identities again, to escape the thrall of the baton at last.

3.   Both in words and in his fussy, faintly self-mocking gestures, he asserts his identity.

4.   A grass-roots movement of Caribbean-born people who are asserting an identity as direct descendants of the Taino is strong and growing in the United States.

5.   Canada must assert its identity and flourish within a unified system.

6.   Despite centuries of repression, the Irish never stopped asserting their identity through their language, music, poetry, prose, and drama.

7.   Economically and culturally vibrant regions are asserting their identity and taking advantage of European integration to develop ties across national frontiers.

8.   Muslims use orange tiles for the roofs of their rebuilt houses to assert their identity.

9.   The government, for its part, considers even peaceful attempts to assert Kurdish identity as threats to national unity.

10.   This country is dominated by the Tswana people, and for generations smaller tribes have been discouraged from asserting their identities to promote a sense of national unity.