Sentence examples for a more assertive posture from inspiring English sources

Mr. Galbraith favored a more assertive posture.

What followed was a more assertive posture by Boeing.

The country's lack of transparency about this, it says, is fuelling concern in the region about China's intentions, with some of its neighbours fearing that China's growing military and economic weight is "beginning to produce a more assertive posture, particularly in the maritime domain".

Michael Stephens, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in Qatar, speculated that the rich but tiny Gulf state wanted to drag Saudi Arabia into "a more assertive posture that produces a genuine sense of threat among Syrian decision makers".

It is apparent that at the massive conclave, held once every five years, he managed to obtain the assistance of the more hardline elements of the PLA in return for ever-larger increases in defense expenditures, promotions for hawkish officers especially General Chen Bingde, who has become chief of general staff and adoption of a more assertive posture toward other nations.

Moreover, having seen the U.S. kowtow, Beijing would likely take a more assertive posture in the South China Sea and push Washington further, demanding a more comprehensive drawdown of American military forces from East Asia.

With China's growing military strength comes a more assertive stance in the region.

Content creators are taking a more assertive stance.

But a more assertive stance would not necessarily have delivered a better result.

At UCS, Rosenberg advocates a somewhat more assertive posture.

This bumps up against China's more assertive posture of "active defense" in the East China Sea marked most recently by its surprise, unilateral declaration in December of an "air defense identification zone".