Sentence examples for not so assertive from inspiring English sources

Most of the trained shiners, however, were effective leaders; just assertive enough to indicate which direction the school should travel but not so assertive that they lost the group and the protection it provided, the scientists report online before print in The American Naturalist.

Democrats say Mr. Van Hollen has not been so assertive when it comes to the legislative agenda in the House.

Not so long ago, assertive, politically aware women were an isolated minority.

In 1979 Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox were not so numerous nor politically assertive.

But, she added: "I think that you can't be so aggressive and so assertive and so adamant about getting it.

In Erasmus's native Europe, meanwhile, assertive Muslim minorities are straining, though not so far exhausting, the capacity of democracy to deal with new social realities.

She never became that mythical female boss who is assertive but not aggressive, nurturing but not mothering, not so strong that it bothers the men, but never weak like a woman.

He knew well enough that she did not like this kind of kissing, and he had never before been so assertive.

As a result, within the porn world, MILF (and similar "older" woman pegs) have come to signify not so much an age bracket, but rather an aesthetic and persona: full-figured and assertive.

The state is pluralistic and assertive, populated by a mix of immigrants, transplants, and descendants of people who, not so long ago, picked up stakes and headed out West.

Never have the young been so assertive or so articulate, so well educated or so worldly.