Sentence examples for a more assured from inspiring English sources

With his death, in 1181, the church found itself in a more assured position than at his accession.

A very different city from Scotland's largest city, the sometimes maligned Glasgow, Edinburgh is changing faster than Glasgow and has a more assured future, particularly since the late 1990s, when it regained its full status as a capital city.

And, just like Thora Birch's Jane Burnham, Ting-Ting finds herself with no parental figure to help her through adolescence; she finds her role model instead in a more assured, more attractive and apparently more sexually sophisticated girlfriend.

Just over a half-century ago, during another time of American insecurity and fear, of things both real and imagined, John F. Kennedy used his legendary but abbreviated presidency to try to chart a course to a more assured future.

If you present yourself with assurance and a smile, you will definitely attract a more assured and optimistic woman.

But the Huskies are a more assured team now.

My own survival wasn't any more assured.

This central paradox in Margie's character — what might be described as a feisty defeatism — is beautifully conveyed by Ms. McDormand, who won an Oscar for playing a far more assured figure, a tenacious Minnesota police officer in the 1996 film "Fargo".

Speaking at the end of a Q&A with members of the public – thought to be the first time a political party has opened its doors at an annual conference – he put in a far more assured performance than in his speech the day before.

The second adaptation of a Philip Roth novel in as many weeks, following Ewan McGregor's American Pastoral, this represents a rather more assured take on the work of an author whose writing is notoriously difficult to bring to the screen.

We're not great in Britain about dealing with anything emotional – having gone out with an American man, I've found they're a lot more assured of what it means.