If you don't, the dog may become pushy and try to dominate you or other members of your family.
All will be well, according to Sandberg, if individual women only learn "to raise their hands", "toot their own horn", "think personally … substitute we for I", "fake it till you feel it" and become pushy in the workplace just like (some) men.
Mary had become pushy, too bold for her own good.
Because people know it's based on the real people, playing together, and if we become pushy with this we lose the focus of the film.
A 2007 study found that female leaders are penalized for success in male domains when they defy gender stereotypes about how women should act, which is how being authoritative, aggressive and direct becomes "pushy" and "bossy" and "b*tchy".
Something about the entrepreneurial spirit of the times has created in me the driving desire to transform my cute little story into something bigger, compelling me to become a marketing maniac, a pushy talent agent, a lounge act.
And then I started to become irritated, as you might with any pushy relative who overstayed.
Realising that a good way for a pushy individual to "interfere in public affairs" was to become a newspaper proprietor, William purchased the Observer from Lord Northcliffe in 1911 for £5,000.
It's even harder, she said, to tap into emotions naked enough to become Louise, the neglected, dreamy, second-fiddle daughter who astounds herself and her pathologically pushy mother, Momma Rose, by discovering a talent for seductive, racy celebrity.
