Sentence examples for assertive characteristics from inspiring English sources
Coping is then more than acquiescence or making do, it can be positive and assertive, characteristics which this paper is keen to expose.
A person who speaks up and gives his opinion can either be assertive (a positive characteristic) or aggressive (a negative one).
Sammy's picture bride has just arrived from China, illegally, but the shy Mei Li is clearly the wrong girl for Sammy, who already has an assertive girlfriend, a characteristic he likes.
Mr. Sarris was characteristically assertive.
Recommendation letters for women applying to faculty positions at one U.S. university, for example, tended to describe relationship-building characteristics writers used words such as "nurturing" and "caring"—more often than action-oriented characteristics such as "confident," "assertive," and "intellectual".
Among people with disabilities nearing retirement age, slightly more than one-quarter report receiving employer-provided accommodations that helped them stay at work, and the most predictive factors of receiving workplace accommodations appear to be such employee characteristics as education, race, and having assertive personality traits (Hill et al. 2016).
The way he handled visual images was characteristic of the way he wrote, determined not to make his point in an assertive way, but with implication and suggestion.
Women are more assertive.
It was always more an attitude than a coherent style: some of its broadly common characteristics included spurning neo-Classical standards and practices, embracing ordinary reality, contemporary events and nature in all forms, and employing assertive, emotionally charged brush strokes.
