Sentence examples for an assertive posture from inspiring English sources

President Obama's Federal Trade Commission has taken an assertive posture in several areas of consumer law.

At the time, Hillary Clinton was the leading advocate of such an assertive posture as Obama's Secretary of State.

And an assertive posture against Trump may help Newsom if he has further ambitions in national politics, particularly in a Democratic Party whose base has been energized in opposition to the president.

Maintain an assertive posture when sitting.

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".

The approach — part carrot, part stick — reflected the delicate balance the administration is trying to strike in a campaign year by taking a newly assertive posture over China's trade and commercial policies, while pursuing delicate negotiations as an alternative to confrontation.

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".

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.