The Washington Post now pushes its reporters to be more assertive with news sources to get them on the record.
The person who described the meeting said some of the participants urged Mr. Karzai to reconsider his views and his plans to be more assertive with the United States.
It's no secret that many think the president needs to be more assertive with Congress, yet administration officials still talk about Obama in awestruck tones, even in private.
If more people were more assertive with their diversity - like if more wore the signature curly side-burns of the Jews, or sarees and cheongsams and so on, we wouldn't feel so comfortable around each other.
I could have had more impact on my previous teams if I had been more assertive with my opinions, but it's easy to worry about saying the wrong thing when you're relatively new.
Mr. Simpson celebrated his victory by denouncing Sir Ken's leadership as a "rubber stamp" for the Blair government and promising to be more assertive with Mr. Blair's Labor Party, which he said had become "divorced from its roots".
Ms. Whitson of Human Rights Watch said the Obama administration's failure to be more assertive with Bahrain's monarchy reflected what she called "a fairly simple but unfortunate formula: a stable ally that serves a role in the larger regional conflict that the United States has decided it has with Iran".
Washington seemed to be sending two messages: First, the president of the United States, in his second term, would be more assertive with both Israel and the Palestinians regarding the need for a substantive peace process, and Netanyahu should be aware of this expectation in forming his government.
The pursuit of the long-term objective of rapprochement to the Union and of the opening of further frameworks of cooperation with the EU have prevented the local authorities from Moldova and Georgia to be more assertive with their demands for short-term mobility opportunities for their nationals through their Mobility Partnership.
If only I had been more assertive with my OB, asked more questions, demanded proof of Stacy's growth.
