Sentence examples for assertive use of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

That a proposition (or sentence) is actually accepted, i.e., that a judgement is made, must therefore be indicated by an additional sign like Frege's judgement-stroke or it remains implicit in the assertive use of a declarative sentence.

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).

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.

It is also questionable whether many Americans yearn for a return to the belligerence of the early Bush years, even if some think Mr Obama insufficiently assertive in his use of American power.

That can be followed by persuasion offered in a conversational but assertive manner; the use of a "command voice" ("I'm not asking anymore, I'm telling," Dr. Fyfe explained); a "firm grip" on a shoulder or arm; a "pain-compliance technique," such as finger-bending; "impact techniques," such as thrown fists or feet; and "deadly force," which is used to protect the lives of citizens and officers.