But, on the other hand, we couldn't have aggressive vehicles that present safety issues so we might be better targeting assertive vehicles that provide some sort of audible or visual warning when they are going to do something".
Washington needs an assertive response to the targeting and killing of its allies by Russia or face a seismic eclipse of US influence.
Prevention strategies targeting repeated suicide attempts need to address most of the raised risk factors by providing crisis intervention, being assertive and accessible, and at the same time offering individually shaped support.
Titled "Who are the bullies and why are they targeting your child?", it promises to equip children being bullied and their parents with "coping skills … to be assertive and flourish in the playground and in life".
Moreover, the intervention should include weekly sessions targeting basic contents: motherhood changes, reorganizations and emotional experience; cognitions, self-criticism, and self-compassion; parenting values, social support, and assertive communication skills; couple relationship, negotiation and conflict resolution skills; and postpartum depression signs and professional help-seeking.
From the 1980s, neoconservative idealism took the form of an assertive and interventionist foreign policy that targeted anti-American regimes and leftist movements abroad.
Corporate buses that Google and other tech companies lay on to ferry their workers from the city to Silicon Valley, 30 or 40 miles to the south, are being targeted by an increasingly assertive guerrilla campaign of disruption.
But Obama's assertive renomination resulted in Johnsen being targeted for more obstruction.
Be assertive, firm, direct, and consistent.
The fund plans to target projects helping those "undergoing difficult transitions in their lives or experiencing isolation" and it will be "unashamedly assertive in taking risks to address unpopular or challenging issues that have been neglected by other funders".
The new measures are targeted at the country's largest cities, where smoggy skies and high pollution alerts are visible to a rising and more assertive middle class, and to the outside world.
