It kept the drink from being too tart without challenging its distinctively assertive nature, thanks to the yuzu and the pepper.
Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who desires a more " normal" (read "assertive") Japan, has, thanks to Mr Kim, a reason to revisit many of the taboos that constrain Japan's Self-Defence Forces please do not call them the armed forces.
Even while he has relished a return to the spotlight in recent months thanks to his assertive stance on the border crisis, the threat of serious legal trouble has been skulking in the background.
When 20-year Phoenix resident and businesswoman Maria Maqueada turned in her emergency ballot today at the Maricopa County Recorder's Office, thanks to the assertive efforts of Citizens for a Better Arizona, one more vote was cast in what observers are already calling a record Latino vote in Arizona.
All these performances, it almost goes without saying, had a nearly supernatural precision and finesse, thanks in no small part to Ms. Malkki's detailed, assertive direction.
Ms. Beglarian's "I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long" is more assertive: its violin line begins with outgoing bursts and becomes increasingly contrapuntal, thanks to a touch of digital delay.
They did, thanks to a dominating performance in which the Magic was collectively assertive — not just its dominant player, Dwight Howard.
What we know today thanks to mostly female primatologists, anthropologists, and sex researchers is that when the context is right, female sexuality is assertive, adventurous, and what we call "promiscuous".
