Sentence examples for assertive leading from inspiring English sources

Arugula is also the assertive leading player in a salad that includes pears and peppery candied walnuts.

He's a real handsome, attractive and assertive leading man.

All elite groups (apart from the armed forces, for which no data were available) were less likely than they were in 1993 to say that America should be the most assertive of leading nations.

"The Ghost of Blackwood Hall" shows an assertive Nancy leading more timid friends up the front steps of the haunted house, and marks a transition to later illustrations.

LAS VEGAS — Mitt Romney came under intensive attack from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination at a debate here Tuesday night, with a newly assertive Rick Perry leading a sometimes personal barrage against him on conservative consistency, health care policy and even the immigration status of yard workers at his home.

With organisational talent and eloquence, the assertive mullah was soon leading the clash between turban and crown.

He said the descriptions of the attack fit the overall picture of Darfur these days, with rebel forces growing increasingly assertive in the weeks leading to the peace talks and the Sudanese government responding by "trying to reclaim these areas before the cease-fire".

He noted specifically that women appeared in command positions more regularly as main and supporting characters, and were portrayed as more assertive and combative, with leading roles in action sequences.

Would America have created a permanent war economy (one that President Eisenhower later warned had become a "military-industrial complex") and replaced England as the world's most assertive imperialist and colonial power, leading the country into numerous military adventures, including Vietnam?

But leading companies are growing more assertive about their economic role at home.

The leading Christian churches here, increasingly assertive and unusually unified, have shifted position over the past three months of violence and are now openly backing Palestinian demands for full sovereignty over Jerusalem's Old City and its Christian and Muslim holy sites.