Sentence examples for assertive members of from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Walinsky was a legislative assistant to the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, he was known not always affec tionately as one of the most assertive members of the staff.

"The striking thing is that the teacher involved the entire class during the lesson, so you didn't have a connection simply with the most intelligent or assertive members of class," he says.

While participants suggested that time to think and reflect may assist less confident and assertive members in making contributions, there was little evidence from this study that this had made a difference in practice, perhaps related to the issues of interactivity and language that are discussed below.

The prospects for a conference, originally intended to be held in June in Geneva, appear to have waned as Mr. Assad's government has grown more assertive and members of the Syrian opposition have balked, saying they would attend only if Syrian forces ended the fierce fighting under way in Qusayr, a strategically important town near the Lebanese border.

Normally, freshmen keep quiet, but Cain is an assertive member of the insurgent Freedom Caucus.

IHSS workers serving in an enhanced care coordination role would need to be skilled in effective and assertive communication with other members of clients' health care teams.

In the most thorough look at how studying abroad shapes the views of Chinese returnees, Donglin Han and David Zweig found that those who had lived overseas in this case, those who had spent time in Canada and Japan believed more strongly in "coöperative internationalism," and were slightly less supportive of assertive nationalism, compared to members of the middle class who had never lived abroad.

But there is a risk that the creation of the team be unfairly shaped by one or a few team members who may be particularly assertive or controlling, leaving other members of the team feeling marginalized and powerless.

Backed by the Kids — a coterie that includes her Yeah Yeah Yeahs partners along with members of other rhythmically assertive bands like Deerhunter, Liars and the Dead Weather — she yelps and croons, and occasionally hums, in the voice of a confused and complicated id.

They view Mr. Paul's crusade as nothing more than the usual attempt by members of the opposition party to undermine the assertive foreign policy of an incumbent president.

Many MPs fear that elected members of the reformed Lords would be more assertive and threaten the primacy of the Commons.