"self-asserting" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe someone or something that is confident in its own abilities and takes action to make sure its needs and opinions are recognized and respected. Example Sentence: He is a self-asserting leader who speaks up for himself and his team.
(Mrs. Gray's reply was impeccable: American weeds, she said, were "modest, woodland, retiring things; and no match for the intrusive, pretentious, self-asserting foreigners").
He believes truth lies in the open-ended, the "carnivalesque": a tragic plot expresses "the profound crime of all self-asserting individuality".
But that was not the view taken by many Russians who were insulted by the self-asserting proclamation of immovable presidential power stretching over the next decade and more.
Barnes juxtaposed pictures of wildly varying age, style, and quality — a great Tintoretto portrait under a perfunctory Renoir still-life next to a Rousseau jungle scene — and they goad one another to self-asserting eloquence.
Barnes juxtaposed pictures of wildly varying age, style, and quality a great Tintoretto portrait under a perfunctory Renoir still-life next to a Rousseau jungle scene and they goad one another to self-asserting eloquence.
Infectious and bold, this banger of a track, produced by renowned producer !llmind and Jungin, features (in the English version) Seer and Father Dude of Smokey Robotic alongside Tasha's notoriously booming and self-asserting vocals.
The intake of blood turns Bat Boy into a whirlwind of eclectic knowledge and a model, incidentally, of the reconstituted, perfected American self, asserting its vindictive intellectual triumph: I'm gonna Vince van Gogh them And Henry Thoreau them, And Plato, And Cato, And Edgar Allan Poe them... Gonna Jackie O them, Marilyn Monroe them Botticelli, Machiavelli, Larry, Curly and Moe them!
These findings, albeit only among American and Japanese, suggest that 3-year-olds tend to self-assert in an aggressive fashion.
But of course there was no chance for her to rethink any of this, and so there was no chance for another of her talents — saving people from their worst selves — to assert itself.
The viewer is filled with tenderness for this child who can scarcely see how lovely she is in all her ruthless self-criticism, asserting "her right to be the author of herself", to quote the 70s rhetoric.
Mr. Olmert's statements have been not only supportive of the left; they have been highly self-critical, asserting that his earlier views, the ones on which he was brought up, were just wrong.
