Sentence examples for the less assertive from inspiring English sources

Partial comparisons between people can help and majority decisions do carry weight, as long as the interests of the less assertive citizens are not ignored.

Guaidó is part of an opposition that never stopped challenging Chávez's popular legitimacy even in his heyday, and who naturally doubled down as soon as the less assertive Maduro took office.

The wonder of this roll is that it allows you to taste the less assertive ingredients, the tuna and yellowtail, in spite of the more aggressive ones, the black pepper that coats the tuna and the chopped jalapeño peppers planted in the rice.

Abbi is the more organized and responsible, yet also the less assertive and dreamier one.

But the group was rejected by the Jewish establishment it challenged, both in the United States and in Israel, where its militant Zionism and right-wing politics clashed with the less-assertive and generally liberal mainstream.

In the end, during a fairly lackluster episode – and Kim being one of the less-assertive guest judges (bring back Stacey Bendet) – the red flowing outfit by Anthony Ryan and Laura took top honors, with Laura getting immunity for next week.

His leading role in contesting the sex-abuse bill, which is opposed by all the state's Catholic prelates, contrasts with the less-assertive style of Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who retired in April as leader of the neighboring Archdiocese of New York.

The mince is less assertive, and thus less satisfying to eat – it feels like invalid food by comparison.

His disagreement rather takes the subtler and less assertive form of an immanent critique, pointing out that each thinker's existentialist philosophy ends up being inconsistent with its own starting point: "starting from a philosophy of the world's lack of meaning, it ends up by finding a meaning and depth in it" (MS, 42).

What is more, the crowd became less assertive in its demands and lost its momentum, solidarity and sense of unity.

Then there are the anise or licorice varieties -- less assertive than the citrus basils but more complex than the standard sweet basils.