It was only after Mr. Romney was gearing up in 2005 for a possible White House bid that he backed away from some of his most assertive tax enforcement proposals amid intensifying complaints from local companies and conservative antitax groups in Washington.
Brazilian diplomats have staked out an assertive role in preliminary talks, resisting proposals from rich industrialized countries that developing nations should be required to pay more to reduce environmental degradation.
The proposals, originally pressed by the newly assertive German chancellor, will be debated Friday in what is expected to be a contentious session of the leaders of the 17 countries that use the euro.
The nearly unanimous Senate vote came after President Obama threatened to veto proposals that would have given Congress a more assertive role or that would have added fresh demands to the ongoing negotiations.
Instead, the president confronted a newly assertive conservative coalition determined to resist any and all of his proposals.
While past exhibitions showcased proposals for the future of education, urban reconstruction and leisure, offering confident, assertive plans for a new way forward, this edition strikes a more critical, uncertain tone.
In support of this proposal, it has been shown that patients with ED have a non-assertive interpersonal style, greater social skill difficulties, less socially effective behavior, a smaller social support network, and more difficulties using this network than CTL subjects [ 16].
He derided both proposals as "partisan and unrealistic" and urged the president to play a more assertive role in negotiating a final compromise.
While Ms. Power is understood to favor a more assertive American role there, Ms. Rice, like Mr. Obama, remains cautious, especially given the absence of reasonable guarantees that proposals like establishing a no-fly zone or arming the deeply dysfunctional array of rebel groups would produce a better outcome.
Practice being assertive, but considerate.
