Sentence examples for assertiveness over from inspiring English sources

Mrs Clinton was robust in the face of Chinese assertiveness over claims in the East and South China Seas.

Its recent assertiveness over territorial claims in its near-abroad has seen the region's smaller countries scurry for American reassurance of support.

China has shown increasing assertiveness over its claims by stressing that much of the South China Sea and its islands belong to China for historical reasons going back many centuries.

Once held up as a model of foreign investment in Russia, the TNK-BP venture is unraveling amid a broad trend of Kremlin assertiveness over the country's oil resources.

In "World War IV," a brilliant, long, sweeping review of our foreign policy in the past century in the current Commentary magazine, the neoconservative Norman Podhoretz makes the historical case for optimistic assertiveness over "realistic" accommodation.

Next year ASEAN plans to establish an "economic community"—a single market to make network trade more seamless.But China's assertiveness over disputed territories in the South and East China Seas has put it at loggerheads with important trading partners such as Vietnam and Japan.

We hope Mr. Johnson's new-found assertiveness will carry over to another corps project.

For all China's increased assertiveness internationally over the past year (including its obduracy at climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen last December and heavy sentencing of dissidents despite Western appeals for clemency), it does not want to be seen as a potential military threat.

Better relations with America are portrayed in Russia as a belated American recognition of past errors and a vindication of the Kremlin's assertiveness, notably over Georgia.Nor is there any sign of the promised falling-out between a hardline Mr Putin and a liberal Mr Medvedev.

Russia and China's growing assertiveness, fears over terrorism and cyber security, and costly military quagmires Afghanistan and Iraq certainly indicated a need to reassess American foreign policy.

Historically, women's assertiveness changes over time, but men's assertiveness does not [ 23].