Assertive with a capital A, Bartz took on interviewer Kara Swisher, News Corp. chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch (offering Yahoo as a better ad option and calling him out for not paying attention) and the perception of Yahoo as a 98-lb.
It has long shielded large banks from assertive regulation and increased capital requirements.
In one piece, the phrase "Art Always Changes" begins with a big, assertive, look-at-me capital letter: this isn't an observation, it's a policy statement.
The government has only nibbled at the edges of spending reform and it lacks the political capital to be more assertive on this front.
With the extraordinarily deliberate, assertive and mammoth health care win, however, Obama gains the capital to claim much greater authority and, with it, individuality.
While Mr. Paterson has long been known in the capital for his affability, it can obscure a more assertive side — and he has said that he thought it was to his advantage to be underestimated.
I had not seen him in a year, and I noted immediately how he was both more feminine and more assertive than the shy and composed boy I had met in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
Even those capitals which might agree that the IAEA could be more assertive, point to the certain and tangible benefits of the Vienna deal, which has reduced the Iranian stockpile of low-enriched uranium by nearly 99%.
In Benghazi - 1,000 km (621 miles) east of the capital and the cradle of Libya's revolution - militants are becoming more assertive.
While al-Shabaab's reported withdrawal from Mogadishu may bring some respite to civilians in the capital from the incessant fighting, future abuses are likely unless the warring parties take assertive measures to end them, Human Rights Watch said.
We have explained this through mediating factors often referred to as "cultural resources" or "cultural capital" [ 14- 16]: patients with a higher educational attainment are thought to be more empowered, assertive and self-advocating, putting more emphasis on self-determination and control over the end of life, and being more insistent on thorough end-of-life care and decision-making.
