The phrase "assertive efforts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe proactive and confident attempts to achieve a goal or address a situation.
Example: "The team made assertive efforts to improve communication and collaboration among members."
Alternatives: "proactive attempts" or "decisive actions".
Reactions to this surge largely focus on cheap Chinese imports or on China's assertive efforts to win access to energy reserves.
But scores of foster and adoption agencies around the country have found that assertive efforts relying on the Internet, the telephone, advertisements and, in a some cases like this one, door-to-door questioning by full-time investigators, can turn up dozens of relatives for almost any child.
The Obama campaign, meanwhile, has made its own assertive efforts to appeal to rural voters, setting up offices in 27 small towns throughout the state and deploying volunteers to talk to neighbors and emphasize issues like the president's support of the wind energy tax credit — and Mr. Romney's opposition to it.
"China's increasingly assertive efforts to advance its national sovereignty and territorial claims, its forceful rhetoric, and lack of transparency about its growing military capabilities and strategic decision-making continue to raise tensions and have caused countries in the region to enhance their ties to the United States," the report said.
The essential underpinnings of a modern state -- credibility and trust -- have been strengthened by the Timorese's assertive efforts to meet the needs of its people and investing in peace and stability.
When 20-year Phoenix resident and businesswoman Maria Maqueada turned in her emergency ballot today at the Maricopa County Recorder's Office, thanks to the assertive efforts of Citizens for a Better Arizona, one more vote was cast in what observers are already calling a record Latino vote in Arizona.
The assertive effort of Wisconsin's fed-up citizens through recall of an overstepping politician is democracy at its finest: nonviolent assertion of the power of the people.
The most visible current campaign is an assertive effort from the Collegiate Churches of New York, with a budget estimated at more than $1 million.
Moving to strip Mr. Gingrich of his anti-establishment credentials, Mr. Romney and his campaign on Sunday began a more assertive effort to define Mr. Gingrich as a Washington insider whose tenure as House speaker was marked by chaos and ethical lapses.
Despite this enthusiasm from patients, professionals felt that the provision of CHD screening and relevant interventions would require more assertive effort in this patient group.
And it has one of the most assertive multidepartmental efforts in the country, along with New York, to overcome mistrust and engage Muslims as allies in preventing terrorism, according to law enforcement experts.
