"Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid.
The U.S. is a very assertive society with people, but not when it comes to dogs.
If you are not a very assertive person, you may have to become more assertive with people in order to put yourself first.
Instead of simply calling attention to the inappropriateness of a comment or question, she wants you to flip it back on the asker in a more assertive way.
Discipline your horse when he behaves badly; do so in a fair, assertive way, and then move on.
Remember that anger is often a sign that the other person has not learned to respond in a healthy, assertive way to situations s/he experiences as threatening.
" China's efforts to enhance its influence as a rising power in an assertive way will backfire and result in an unintended encirclement of China by her neighbors.
Whatever the content of the text is, be sure to read it in an assertive way rather than in an emotional way.
She was a very Southern beauty, very gentle, very quiet; in her little assertive way, though, there was a lot of steel in that lady".
Our proactive contribution to peace and that general movement is supported by most of the countries in Asia.So next year: I would like to make it a year for Japan to become more assertive in the region, to show Japan as a peace-loving country willing to contribute further, in a very material way, to the rest of the world.
