Sentence examples for was very assertive from inspiring English sources

"O'Keeffe was very assertive as a woman but was always very keen to assert that she was an important artist, not just an important female artist".

He was very assertive and focused and had great integrity.

The hostage said the fighter was "the leader of the pack, someone who was very assertive and was responsible for negotiations with hostage families and certainly had spoken to many mums, dads, (and) wives on Skype".

He was very assertive about it: no toxic food, no toxic relationships and no toxic emotions.

As archbishop, Ralph was very assertive of the rights of the see of Canterbury and of the liberties of the English church.

"No, they are very assertive," he said.

"He's being very assertive and aggressive," Nets Coach Lawrence Frank said of Harris.

Tonight we were very assertive in trying to get to the basket and get the best possible shot we could".

The mashed potatoes were a bit stiff, and the spinach we ordered turned out to be very assertive braised greens — a mistake, we assumed, by the kitchen.

"We as a movement have been very assertive in embracing the full civil rights of gay men and women," Rabbi Polish said.

John Rogers, a state representative from Birmingham and also executive director of minority programs for the Birmingham campus, said: "My real feeling is that sometimes when you are very assertive, you overshadow other people in the system, maybe even the chancellor.