Anyway, he is being assertive enough now.
Feminists have criticized her for not being assertive enough.
Mr. Richard, at France Télécom, said Ms. Lagarde herself had not been assertive enough.
He rejected criticism that the city was not being assertive enough.
Obviously, you want people to be assertive enough to leap forward, but you also want them to be self-aware enough to honestly evaluate themselves.
Sandberg's book is going to rub some women the wrong way, because she says that part of the problem is women not being assertive enough.
"He was such a quiet and shy kid when we got him that you wondered if he would ever be assertive enough to be a star player in the N.B.A., even though he had the talent," he said.
When Mr. Obama won the nomination, however, they eagerly supported him, and now they say they believe he is doing well, but they often wonder if he is assertive enough.
1 56 p.m. | Updated Mitt Romney faulted the Obama administration on Sunday for its policy on Syria in the wake of a brutal crackdown in the city of Houla that killed scores of civilians, saying the president has failed to be assertive enough in confronting the Assad government.
Wouldn't it have been better to hear from someone like Virginia Ironside, representing Radio 4's older generation who, according to her, prefer gardening to sex? How about one or two teenagers, who, despite all our best hopes, keep not being assertive enough in the bedroom?
