Sentence examples for like assertive from inspiring English sources

For example, people are more willing to help others if there is the smell of fresh bread in the air, and they are more likely to be rude if they just read words like "assertive" and "interrupt".

Made of Masonite scraps, cardboard tubes and other things collected from the street or bought on the cheap, they bristle brightly and usually symmetrically, like assertive stage props.

In the 80s it looked more like assertive 19th-century liberalism than worldly, sceptical Toryism of the moderate and paternalistic British variety.

In fact, nearly all my evaluators were extremely diplomatic, using words like "assertive," "direct" and "intense," even where "overbearing" would have been equally apt.

This is particularly shameful because we know which services work: there is a broad consensus among mental-health experts that programs like Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), supportive housing, intensive case management, peer support, and mental-health-crisis services help keep people with mental illness out of the criminal-justice system.

Few, perhaps, are as lyrical as Mr. Paget in describing the pleasures of a fire built with what is known in the trade as meticulous or specialty wood -- from sweet-smelling cherry and apple to nutty hickory and fuels like assertive peat.

"People generally like the more assertive approach to leadership — it feels like he is more in charge and in command, which is what people want from a president".

What will the side effects be like?" Being assertive, he said, is critical.

Words like "aggressive," "assertive" and "arrogant" have been used to describe China's foreign policy, particularly with respect to its protracted war of words with Japan over a set of disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Suddenly after a summer of speculation, rumour, innuendo and adverse headlines, Omnicom is once again beginning to look like the assertive sector leader to which we had all grown accustomed.

Her recent music, including "Songs of Ascension," a collaboration with the video artist Ann Hamilton, which opened at the BAM Harvey Theater on Wednesday, sounds nothing like the assertive pieces she wrote and sang in the 1980s.