Even the proudest and most assertive Russian and Soviet statesmen have shown, sometimes by the very assertiveness of their pride, that they long to be taken seriously by more established members of the club.
(Patient 6, stage 2 interview) It was apparent that the most assertive patients and families, articulate in English, and those with a good advocate were able to access services more effectively than those who were less able to assert their needs.
Would America have created a permanent war economy (one that President Eisenhower later warned had become a "military-industrial complex") and replaced England as the world's most assertive imperialist and colonial power, leading the country into numerous military adventures, including Vietnam?
It's one of her wildest, most assertive performances, and it has to be, because going up against Barrymore in full cry is a formidable challenge for a relatively unknown young actress: subtlety wouldn't have gotten her very far.
In the first few months of the Trump administration, he emerged as a party power broker, one of the president's most assertive critics, and an oft-rumored candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
Friday's vote was Georgia's most assertive move yet, and lawmakers hailed the decision as historic.
Another girl — the one with the most assertive personality — freaks out and cries, because she's terrified of spiders and so much rides on her being able to act like a pro.
From 90 miles away, Fidel said and did the things that the most assertive American black leaders said and did but unlike Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and others, he survived.
Perhaps this is because online bullying against women is often carried out in the form of threats of rape and similar expressions of male dominance and violence that can be disconcerting even to the strongest and most assertive of women.
And some of his most assertive early essays about race and hipness made his bona fides clear.
