In a larger space, the cast takes a more assertive approach by maintaining contact with audience members through improvisations that show them swaying from side to side and monitoring heartbeats through touch.
In a move that suggests a more assertive approach by Nick Clegg's party, the Lib Dems have joined forces with leading charities and senior figures in local government to argue that a rigid cap could have a disastrous effect on families living in areas where the cost of housing is highest.
WASHINGTON — A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the United States in recent days, a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies about a more assertive stance by the Russian military.
And, bit by bit, it is carving out a more assertive and independent role.Special report Staring into the abyss A very short history of the crisis Destructive creation In theory Beyond the fringe The Nico and Angela show Look at it this way Making do Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsWhen Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, meets Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, the atmosphere can be chilly.
"Mad Men" is often at its best when its characters avoid old ruts (Joan, after all, took a small step toward a more assertive future by delegating some responsibility and handing off her keys to Dawn).
In recent years a more assertive Iran, run by a Shia Muslim theocracy, has mounted multiple challenges to Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia's role as guardian and leader of the Islamic world.
That same year, China started to take a more assertive approach towards Japan by increasing its aerial and law enforcement presence in disputed waters to demonstrate its sovereignty.
At the same time, a more assertive Germany, now led by a generation that came of age after the war, no longer feels the same moral duty that Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl once felt to act only in coordination with France.
Yet the "John Paul II bishops" who came to power in the 1980s and beyond saw Bernardin's style and views as too accommodating, and too reluctant to mount the barricades on behalf of a more assertive Catholic identity marked by a few hallmark issues rather than a spectrum of teachings.
