But now, when I visit college classes, the women seem just as assertive as the men.
When cooking rhubarb, remember that as assertive as the stalk is when raw, the flavor tames quickly.
Some years later, she was equally assertive in rejecting the role of a traditional Indian wife.
Another evening, crab with avocado came dressed not with weak-kneed pink pap but with a bold cumin-spiked sauce, and "wood-roasted turbot + herbs, shallots, olives" was equally assertive: the firm-fleshed fish carried the punch of meat.
Each begins with a bold statement — two sharply accented chords in the "Eroica" and a longer but equally assertive phrase in the Eighth — followed by a brief silence.
F.G.M. is the most sensational topic in El Saadawi's writing (although she is equally assertive on things like religion, sex, and the veil), but what sets her accounts of it apart is her blend of intimacy and authority — she is able to speak about it as a victim and also as a physician, in fiction and in non-fiction.
Soyer, 11 to 14 years older than the others, and a big, physically imposing figure, seemed to be the dominant personality, seconded by the almost equally assertive Tree, which gave the ensemble a somewhat bottom-heavy tonal profile.
Equally assertive in plans for Arab unity, Libya obtained at least the formal beginnings of unity with Egypt, Sudan, and Tunisia, but these and other such plans failed as differences arose between the governments concerned.
The second candidate, a woman, was equally assertive, yet in that case, the group viewed assertiveness as a liability.
What Do You Represent?" Equally assertive -- and intentionally unsettling, too, which is the point -- is the Austrian artist Valie Export's "Action Pants: Genital Panic" (1969), another large-format photograph.
The article also misattributed a comment in the film, that graffiti writing "has equally assertive counterparts in rap music and break dancing".
