Faced with adverse events, resilient people will be assertive in stating their contribution to the changing situation and will maintain personal control through their assertiveness and maintenance of self-efficacy.
Walker could not sprint home with the same assertiveness, and Hall made a furious charge at the finish, but Walker did maintain enough form and composure to touch first.
Not only will the TPP promote peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, but also it will help maintain the United States' essential strength in that hemisphere at a time of increased Chinese and Russian assertiveness.
Maintain, maintain, maintain.
7. Maintaining a toxicity-free relationship Sometimes, assertiveness and clear communication free of game-playing means an unequal relationship can be rectified into one that is more equal.
Based on the principles of positive psychology, it includes training in assertiveness, negotiation and coping strategies such as maintaining an optimistic outlook on life.
Mrs. Clinton, in the years since you announced your signature foreign policy initiative — the pivot to Asia Chinana has acted with increasing assertiveness against U.S. allies Japan and the Philippines, has maintained its alliance with North Korea despite Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests, and has built and militarized islands out of whole cloth in the South China Sea.
The Caribbean, to which many if not most of this generation maintained more than an emotional connection, was undergoing a period of cultural assertiveness and political turbulence.
Though Mr. Cheney has broad support within his party, he made his declaration that he wanted to stay on with what seemed like a new assertiveness that caught Washington's attention -- striking because he had been maintaining such a low profile.
One wanted more assertiveness.
The island demands assertiveness.
