Thatcher loved to surround herself with assertive, self-made men who shared her disdain for the British class system.
Francois Battiste, the one American in the cast, subtly captures Malcolm X's mix of assertive self-righteousness and fear for his future.
The exhibition begins with a studious but assertive self-portrait by a young Lee Krasner from 1930 and ends with Nicole Eisenman's brand-new painting "Seder," a distinctly untraditional depiction of the festival meal.
Assertive, self-possessed workers like Ms. Wang have become a challenge for the industrial titans of the Pearl River Delta that once filled their mammoth workshops with an endless stream of pliant labor from China's rural belly.
Bayer, Ditton and Wohlkinger (2012) for example point out that the definition problem also exists for the concepts of social skills, interactional skills, being assertive, self-esteem, social- or interpersonal competence, where no clear delimitation of the concepts is possible (Döpfner et al. 1981; Rose-Krasnor 1997; Arnold et al. 2012).
And in a society such as ours, where the phrase "head of the household" is anathema and men are forbidden to dominate in socially beneficial ways, women will seek out assertive, self-confident men whose displays of power aren't so socially beneficial.
Nevertheless, community divisions are still strong, and the unique situation of Britons in Northern Ireland has produced a strong and distinctive British identity which at the extreme is linked with Ulster loyalism and the Orange Institution, but more commonly is "civic in nature", tied with the Protestant work ethic of an "industrious, assertive, self-reliant" people.
The notion seemed a most self-assertive self-abnegation, a step toward creating another, more desirable self — which was pretty much what I had in mind.
We have explained this through mediating factors often referred to as "cultural resources" or "cultural capital" [ 14- 16]: patients with a higher educational attainment are thought to be more empowered, assertive and self-advocating, putting more emphasis on self-determination and control over the end of life, and being more insistent on thorough end-of-life care and decision-making.
His meticulous attention to the physical world isn't assertive but self-questioning.
