("Unless we want to be old and alone," Tim says, "we have to evolve".) Tim's sister Molly Marla Sokolofff), an assertive law student, explains that because women no longer need men, even to have babies, he and others of his sex "have to make us want you".
He has now lost his chief weapon in that debate, the benefit of the doubt: FBI intervention into a presidential election has made fears of an assertive law enforcement and intelligence agency deciding the national agenda more salient than any PR campaign from privacy advocates ever could.
New laws and assertive policing are muzzling dissent.
"Arizona borrowed the federal standards as its own," he said, adding that the state was simply being more assertive in enforcing federal law than the federal government.
The shift from these schools is another indication of the challenge facing the strict form of secularism known as "laïcité." Following centuries of religious wars and a long period of conflict between the nascent Republic and an assertive clergy, a 1905 law granted religious freedom in predominantly Roman Catholic France and withdrew financial support and formal recognition from all faiths.
Vigorous advocacy can help achieve more stringent laws and more assertive application of existing law.
Many southerners think that northern employers anyway would prefer a shy, ill-paid African to an assertive young Sicilian with a law degree.A third reason has to do with the southern way of life.
Once again, they cried for the arrest of George Zimmerman, 28, the neighborhood watch coordinator who has claimed self-defense under a Florida law with the assertive name Stand Your Ground.
By 2003, R Raj Rao's novel, "The Boyfriend" had an increasingly self-aware, assertive audience, even though the police could still use creaking, colonial laws to prosecute and homosexual men in India.
Where labour laws are tough and unions assertive, retirement is often the only way a company can unload surplus staff.
