On the land where one of the most assertive constructions of the twentieth century once stood, on the land where the most devastating act of urban destruction in the history of the United States took place, we ought to be able to come up with something more than six variations in an ordinary key.
As the regime in Beijing has built up its long-distance "blue water" navy it has become increasingly assertive, bolstering its claims with accelerating construction work, and shrugging off calls for a regional negotiation settlement on the Spratlys' future.
Execution: There must be credible follow-through: efficient and full completion of the planned experiments, incorporation of obligatory adjustments as difficulties emerge, construction of the manuscript, assertive participation in the response to peer review, and publication of the paper.
It can be liberating and assertive but like all identity it is a construction.
In America the sharp lines, clean textures and assertive rhythms of neo-Classicism allude more strongly to the construction of a still-young country and a native idiom.
The US and its allies in the region have voiced concern about China's increasingly assertive pursuit of its claims in the South China Sea, including building artificial islands and the construction of airfields and other military facilities.
Historian Denise Thomson suggests that the construction of the Vimy memorial represents the culmination of an increasingly assertive nationalism that developed in Canada during the interwar period.
Practice being assertive, but considerate.
And they are quite assertive.
