Sentence examples for as assertive from inspiring English sources

But now, when I visit college classes, the women seem just as assertive as the men.

And, as I will explain, I'm about as assertive as a rice-pudding.

Ms. Sandberg urges women to lean in and become as assertive as men in pushing forward their careers.

They think he hasn't lived up to it, and hasn't been as assertive as we thought he'd be," Dallek said.

Sheryl Sandberg has long preached: that women have to "lean in" and be as assertive as their male peers.

Her black paintings are as assertive as a wall but have a deep-sea kind of blackness, ghostly and soft.

Because I feel like I wasn't as assertive as I could have been in my earlier years, and I did what other people told me to do.

If so, these results fit with existing research, which suggests that women are as assertive as men when it comes to representing their colleagues, organizations, and family members.

With two trumpets, two saxophones and a trombone, Cubanismo sounded as assertive as a full-size big band in its first set.

Saffron-scented fish stew, combining scallops, shrimp, mussels and perch, is accurately named and accurately cooked, though the garlic in its broth is as assertive as the saffron.

The Meyer is not as assertive as a Lisbon or a Eureka, the common supermarket varieties, but it offers so much more in nuanced flavor that it is unforgettable.