1.   The new pope did not share the general goodwill towards Frederick, and wanted to assert the superiority of pope over emperor.

2.   And in those metro areas religions have clashed as they seek to assert superiority.

3.   It asserts American superiority.

4.   The ancient Egyptians, ever wary of the dynamic peoples to the south, sought to assert their superiority visually.

5.   For the candle-toting Beltran, the subway series offered a chance for his Yankees to assert their superiority.

6.   When destructive quakes hit San Francisco and Los Angeles, Japanese engineers had smugly asserted the superiority of their earthquake engineering.

7.   After the United States dominated the snowboard halfpipe, European snowboarders asserted their superiority in the parallel giant slalom.

8.   Michael Schumacher, who has won the first four races of the season, asserted his superiority as soon as he went out and immediately took provisional pole position.