Sentence examples for assertive once from inspiring English sources

Be assertive once you spot them.

You do not want to miss the sushi rolls ($6.99 each), which despite the coarse, burly brown rice manage to be elegant and assertive at once.

WHEN fighting erupted at the end of August between the Congolese army and a renegade general, Laurent Nkunda, who proclaims himself the saviour of Congo's Tutsi minority, alarm bells began to ring all over the region: not least because neighbouring Rwanda, which is comparatively tiny but has become confident, muscular and assertive, was once again implicated.

As a work of architecture unto itself, it is handsome, at once assertive and self-assured.

A once assertive Protestantism has ceased to be a dominant religion and culture in England, Wales, Scotland, and part of Ireland.

Patricia Spencer, first of the flutists, was at once assertive and feeling in Louis Karchin's "Fanfare/Pavane" and Eugene Lee's "Western Wind".

I was riveted by the degree of heat, at once assertive and tempered, in the pale green broth for Mr. Flay's answer to cioppino, a seafood stew.

She said the firm's belligerence is a sign of power shifting in the country with the media, judiciary and politicians all becoming increasingly assertive against a once unassailable military.

The ensuing scherzo had an appealing character, at once assertive and awkward, and was followed by a quiet withdrawal, which seemed less a full-blown slow movement than an interlude separating one noisy movement from another, the finale.

Twice during the first 10 days of the congress, the party had its nose tweaked by assertive Government bodies - once, when Mr. Yeltsin left the congress where he was a delegate and ostentatiously convened his Russian Parliament, and again, when the Parliament in the nation's second largest republic, the Ukraine, ordered its congress delegates to come home and work on more serious business.

Many passages were steeped in references to God, reflecting the Islamic character Mr. Hussein, once an assertive secularist, has projected since losing the Persian Gulf war.