Sentence examples for ability to assert himself from inspiring English sources

Mr. McKean speaks in a timorous, nasal voice, as if Arthur has become so shriveled up that he has almost lost the ability to assert himself through the basic mode of speech.

John Springer, who had arranged her speaking tours of the early 1970s, wrote that despite the accomplishments of many of her contemporaries, Davis was "the star of the thirties and into the forties," achieving notability for the variety of her characterizations and her ability to assert herself, even when her material was mediocre.

He did not need to assert himself.

He has to assert himself.

I know why he does it: to assert himself.

He felt the need to assert himself immediately.

He knows that he needs to assert himself.

Mr Zoellick will have to assert himself, and his independence, to follow her act.

Sir Hugh Orde, who would like to be Commissioner, saw his chance to assert himself.

It took two years for Nasser to assert himself as President after the revolution of 1952.

David Cameron is losing an opportunity to assert himself as leader of a wider European alliance.