Sentence examples for take a more assertive approach from inspiring English sources

That same year, China started to take a more assertive approach towards Japan by increasing its aerial and law enforcement presence in disputed waters to demonstrate its sovereignty.

The education secretary, who has urged social workers to take a more "assertive" approach to taking at-risk children into care, said: "We... need to be convinced that local areas are setting the right thresholds for intervention".

"The United States needs to take a more assertive approach to China's mercantilist policies, and the administration's action today is a welcome step in the right direction," said Representative Sander M. Levin, a Michigan Democrat and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees trade.

So far, Mr. Gore has taken a more assertive approach than Gov. George W. Bush on all of these questions.

Indeed, some around the president suspect that Chief Justice Roberts, after moving incrementally in his first few years on the bench, has taken a more assertive approach since Mr. Obama took office.

In a larger space, the cast takes a more assertive approach by maintaining contact with audience members through improvisations that show them swaying from side to side and monitoring heartbeats through touch.

Its neighbors, especially Brazil and Argentina, also seem prepared to adopt a more assertive approach in a country where they wield broad economic influence.

He has called for Japan to become a "normal nation" that can speak its mind to the United States and also take a more assertive role overseas.

In effect, Mr. Kerry has picked up the mantle of his predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who pressed Mr. Obama unsuccessfully to take a more assertive role in the Syrian civil war.

Should Germany take a more assertive role in the world?

But no one expects the commission to take a more assertive role anytime soon.