Sentence examples for displays of assertiveness from inspiring English sources

She's more comfortable with overt displays of assertiveness and confidence than the average girl speaker.

On Wednesday, the prime minister fired the defense secretary in a rare public display of assertiveness by the civilian government against the army, as the fallout from a scandal centered on a memo written to Washington asking for its help in reining in the generals widened.

Just as the perception of Mr Blair's eagerness to please Mr Bush has got Mr Blair into this mess, it is just possible that by turning that perception round, the prime minister could do himself some good.No more Mr Nice GuyIn other words, the one thing that might help Mr Blair is to make a greater and much more public display of assertiveness with Mr Bush.

He seems to have little patience for its consensual, process-driven flummery.If that counts as a kind of assertiveness, then it is on display along with another aspect of what is presented as Jokowi's foreign policy, his new "maritime doctrine".

PMDD patients who carried the short allele for 5-HTTLPR displayed increased scores of psychic trait anxiety and lack of assertiveness in comparison with PMDD patients who were homozygous carriers of the long allele.

Moreover, PMDD patients who carried the short allele for 5-HTTLPR displayed increased scores of psychic trait anxiety and lack of assertiveness in comparison with PMDD patients who were homozygous carriers of the long allele.

China has called for the replacement of the dollar as the main global reserve currency, in a display of its growing assertiveness ahead of the G20 summit in London.

Elsewhere there was no lack of assertiveness.

You quickly learn the importance of assertiveness and allies.

His foreign policy strikes a reasonable balance of assertiveness and diplomacy.

Even the slightest gesture of assertiveness can create the pleasing illusion that you control your fate.