Sentence examples for assertive people from inspiring English sources

Conventional wisdom says that assertive people get ahead.

Together, the two systems produce questioning, assertive people driven by a strong sense of cultural identity and religious fervour.

The locals are assertive people, vivid enough to hold their own in settings like Mr. Jim's barbershop and the River, the church started by a repentant convict who now "believed in everything he read from the Bible or learned from Johnny Cash".

In the City, meanwhile, the impatient, assertive people who work for the financial industry won't wait long for the red man to turn green, which means they don't take well to the elaborate multi-phase traffic lights, at which bikes, cars and pedestrians must patiently wait their turn.

They get on with the job and they are quite assertive people".

Look for these outspoken, assertive people to be leading the charge in sales or political campaigns.

So what are non-assertive people supposed to do if their company's culture rewards these actions?

Born in 1947 and active since the mid-seventies, Holl is viewed as assertive by people who are trying to be complimentary, and as a bull in a china shop by people who aren't.

There is certainly a difference between being rude and assertive, but people will have an easy time ignoring you if you're not in their face.

The physical act of this 'self-reporting' has been shown to enable quieter or less assertive young people to have their feelings and observations represented in the study and produce their own frame of meaning [ 40].

The U.S. is a very assertive society with people, but not when it comes to dogs.