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.
So, he gave them more assertive, catchy names, like "I Can't Believe It's Not Licorice Root, Rich Rich Reded," "Soil King," "Potting Perfection" and "Uncle Pete's Moss".
In the first webisode, which was uploaded last month, Sully, played by an actor named Paul Grondy, must deal with an assertive client named Kat who in getting a brochure printed wants a color pink that is "more than pink"; she insists on what she calls "luscious".
His normally assertive personality – we did name him after the king of Spain, after all – turned withdrawn.
The initial television commercial in the campaign features an assertive, gravelly voiced actor named John Lacy, who has appeared in films like "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Zodiac".
(I saw the Saturday-night concert). Although van Zweden has made his name as an assertive interpreter of the standard repertory, he has presented a fair amount of contemporary music in his previous posts, at the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Dallas Symphony.
That image was matched be her sassy, tough-cookie voice, a theatrically savvy variation on the assertive whine of today's one-name pop divas.
Abroad he has chosen to pursue an increasingly assertive, anti-Western foreign policy in the name of re-establishing Russia's greatness.
With Germany having gained in power and influence through its appearance of rigor and solidity, if not flexibility, during Europe's debt misfortunes, the issue now is how assertive Ms Merkel wants to be in naming Mr. Putin's game.
It was an impressively assertive performance by a skater who was named to the Russian world team only last Friday after the Olympic champion Ilya Kulik withdrew with a bad back.
