Sentence examples for becomes assertive from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

The intensity of the attacks had its implications on international shipping and maritime security of near and distant countries like China, which has of late become assertive.