The phrase "assertive use" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a confident or forceful manner of utilizing something, often in the context of communication or behavior.
Example: "The assertive use of language can significantly impact the effectiveness of your message in a presentation."
Alternatives: "confident application" or "forceful utilization".
Mr. Bush's assertive use of the tactic set off a national debate over its propriety.
And while Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia bear some responsibility for ratcheting up frictions, China's assertive use of its navy and commercial vessels (on top of its economic power) has worried many of its smaller neighbors.
But there is no question that China's economic power and its assertive use of its navy and commercial vessels to project influence has changed the regional dynamics and worried many of its smaller neighbors.
Some people speculate that Gyanendra will try to make more assertive use than his brother of the powers the king retains, especially over the army and some aspects of foreign policy.
Not just a short-term shift in governing style and a re-election strategy, Mr. Obama's increasingly assertive use of executive action could foreshadow pitched battles over the separation of powers in his second term, should he win and Republicans consolidate their power in Congress.
While the growth of the Brazilian economy has recently slowed, along with that of other big developing countries, like China and India, President Dilma Rousseff has found herself in the position of defending her government's development model, which involves the assertive use of state-controlled companies and banks to advance antipoverty projects.
The utterances philosophers usually take as paradigmatic are assertive uses of declarative sentences, where the speaker says something.
On one end of the spectrum is the view that all ordinary assertive uses of the quantifiers 'there is' and 'some' are ontologically committing, a view that may be dubbed "allism" (see Lewis 1990, and §1.6.4 above).
Russian foreign policy is likely to continue to be aggressive and assertive, using all tools at its disposal to raise the country's profile and capacity to act forcefully in global politics.
Abbott, who has been playing an increasingly assertive role in security debates, used a speech in Singapore on Wednesday evening to call for increased military action in Iraq and Syria to prevent "the persistence of a blood-soaked caliphate killing in the name of God".
Alex is a trial attorney who knows how to be assertive and use the authority of his position.
