Sentence examples for being assertive enough from inspiring English sources

Anyway, he is being assertive enough now.

Feminists have criticized her for not being assertive enough.

He rejected criticism that the city was not being assertive enough.

Sandberg's book is going to rub some women the wrong way, because she says that part of the problem is women not being assertive enough.

Wouldn't it have been better to hear from someone like Virginia Ironside, representing Radio 4's older generation who, according to her, prefer gardening to sex? How about one or two teenagers, who, despite all our best hopes, keep not being assertive enough in the bedroom?

James was just 4-13 when the two played together in Game 5. Now, a part of that goes back to him simply not being assertive enough offensively, but again part of the blame falls on Spoelstra, who, for whatever reason, refuses to rest his star.

Mr. Richard, at France Télécom, said Ms. Lagarde herself had not been assertive enough.

Obviously, you want people to be assertive enough to leap forward, but you also want them to be self-aware enough to honestly evaluate themselves.

By 2009, Fisher was assertive enough to support locked-out referees, saying that "anything less" than the best officials "is unacceptable to our union".

"He was such a quiet and shy kid when we got him that you wondered if he would ever be assertive enough to be a star player in the N.B.A., even though he had the talent," he said.

When Mr. Obama won the nomination, however, they eagerly supported him, and now they say they believe he is doing well, but they often wonder if he is assertive enough.