Sentence examples for assertive forces from inspiring English sources

But to imagine that his thousands of fans don't represent wider, less assertive forces in Chinese life is out of touch.

The court is always a work in progress, of course, but the current one has matured into an assertive force at the center of American life.

During his nearly 60 years in show business, he presented some of the 20th century's most important playwrights on Broadway and was a quiet, assertive force, often a mediator and a man with impeccable taste.

Still, there's plenty of proof of Shorter's unsurpassed talent: his swaggering guest spot with J. J. Johnson on "In Walked Wayne," the quietly assertive force that he cooks up with Herbie Hancock on "Aung San Suu Kyi," and the feisty interplay he has with his quartet on "Masquelero".

When Ricca, who had been given authority to access all documents, got too assertive, dark forces within the Curia leaked a story about him to the Italian press.

She took a country in the economic doldrums and turned into an assertive world force.

Unions and many Congressional Democrats have contended that the administration should be more assertive in forcing China to honor previous free trade commitments.

In Los Angeles, which has a famously assertive police force and a population at least as diverse as New York's, Bratton says stop-and-frisk is routinely employed with little protest.

But in the decade since the dictator's fall, the group — whose leaders have increasingly espoused a radical form of Islam — has worked to establish itself as an assertive political force.

However, the political context is overshadowed by the assertive new social forces that have perceived Modi as not merely a challenger to the dynastic politics of the Congress but also as a radical reformer, even an iconoclast.

A newly assertive judiciary recently forced the country's notorious intelligence service to present "disappeared" prisoners for review by the court, an event without precedent.