Sentence examples for assertive without from inspiring English sources

Of this season's knuckle-dusters, the most feverishly coveted are assertive without being threatening.

More specifically: Don't talk over people in group exercises: you can be assertive without being difficult.

There are going to be obstacles but we have to be assertive, without compromising who we are.

So far, their Lincoln Center work — which will include several additional phases of reconstruction, beyond Alice Tully — shows a rare talent for being assertive without being egotistical.

Mr. Obama learned to practice the simple but rare principles of effective leadership: be assertive without threatening people; listen carefully; and engage in cooperative problem-solving.

Any marginalized group faces its own version of this dilemma, whether it's immigrants straining to erase their accents, the debate over Ebonics, or women of the "Lean In" age redefining what it means to be assertive without imitating men.

This dilemma – how to work constructively with a powerful, assertive China without compromising or surrendering national interests – grows steadily more acute.

The incursions of two Russian fighters in Turkish airspace on Saturday and Sunday has brought the Syria conflict right up to NATO's borders, testing the alliance's ability to deter a newly assertive Russia without seeking direct confrontation.

Learn to stand up to the control freak in an assertive way without being confrontational.

"There is an ambition to be independent and self-assertive, but without an overall strategy".

"But there is some anxiety that, without assertive leadership at the top of the company, it will".