Sentence examples for highly assertive from inspiring English sources

She lived with another spinster friend, a highly assertive and opinionated artist, Miss Clememts.

The highly assertive nature of his kingship revealed itself in his first expedition to Ireland.

Kaplan is a vigorous, highly assertive forty-seven-year-old, who wears a Rolex and drives an Audi.

This, and her highly assertive manner in debate, quickly made her an influential figure behind the scenes, particularly as Haig's ineptitudes began to irritate the president.

"By many accounts, Paulson was a highly assertive person who often told others what to do, and Bernanke was not," Professor Ball writes.

The Pentagon's conservative and highly assertive civilian leadership, assembled by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, has extraordinary influence in George W. Bush's Washington.

He was the son of a physically small, highly self-assertive and uncultured Coventry doctor, who emigrated to South Africa when Nigel was four, "for the sun".

Both these patients were highly articulate, assertive, and knowledgeable about services, and took a leading role in determining the course of their treatment and the type of services they received.

It's the musical equivalent of a Ronald Reagan stump speech: peppy, assertive, highly anecdotal, occasionally censorious, fiercely obvious.

They're big, assertive, highly fruit-extracted, the very sort that American wine critics and enthusiasts have come to look for over the years.

Finally, in the 20th century she became a feminist leader, credited with terrifying the patriarchs, not because of her religious views, but because she was an assertive, highly visible woman.