Speaking last month, he urged blacks to be more assertive on issues like affirmative action and enhancing black economic power.
On the issue of sexual harassment and groping taxi drivers, Tahereh, too, has a more assertive take.
It seems likely that they too will take a more assertive position on issues in what they see as their own backyard, though their growing role will also encounter increasing opposition.
Germany, in particular, has become far more assertive on security issues than it used to be, and Europe as a whole has become a more united force.
These groups and others -- increasingly assertive on these issues -- have now formally proposed tightening up the 90-10 rule to add military education aid to the government side of the equation.
They have a huge international reach and they've been very proactive and assertive about the issue.
In recent months, an assertive Supreme Court has issued opinions condemning the councils as illegal bodies, and the controversy is expected to spill into this summer's "monsoon" session of Parliament.
In recent months it has grown more assertive over the issue.
As a whole, the court has been fiercely criticized and widely admired for its assertive role in social issues, especially public school financing and housing.
One security adviser to India's government noted Beijing's "more assertive policy" on territorial issues.Meanwhile incentive schemes and government grants continue to draw more Han migrant workers.
Mr. Xi's comments were in the bounds of established Chinese policy, but he appears more willing than his predecessors to show an assertive position on territorial issues, said Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.
