Sentence examples for become assertive from inspiring English sources

Each time these have become assertive, they have been culled.

However, I would hope – instead of alternating between passive and domineering – he would become assertive.

Talk in Washington is that Beijing's once-cautious foreign policy has suddenly become assertive and caustic.

Countries such as South Africa, India and Brazil have managed to beat the odds, grow their economies, become assertive and ambitious; but most Muslim nations remain backward, oppressive, resentful and hopeless.

The red-robed judges in Karlsruhe have become assertive protectors of German sovereignty.All mainstream German politicians share Mrs Merkel's broad strategy because they interpret recent German history in much the same way that she does.

Every single Labour heavyweight could offer to serve on the front bench, perform well in parliament – the arena where they are strong, and become assertive in the shadow cabinet by sheer force of experience and political talent.

In the middle of all this, Beltran, a quiet man, finally became assertive.

Carol: Times were hard before I became assertive enough to say, "You need to do some of this".

But as Russia became assertive under Mr Putin a decade later, a return to the Middle East was only a matter of time, says Tatyana Karasova, an analyst of Russia-Israel relations.

Both films are about an obsessively controlling creator whose creative system and private life are first expanded by, then threatened by, the arrival of an acolyte who is at first submissive but becomes assertive.

In the process of advocating for their children, parents became assertive, working hard to get their children the services needed and making sure they are accepted in their society [ 31].