Sentence examples for were very assertive from inspiring English sources

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

"They were very assertive midwives whose leader was actually encouraging them to do things beyond the ken of all but the most exceptional," he said.

"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".

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

He was very assertive and focused and had great integrity.

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

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.

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".

"She's very assertive, she's strong-willed, she's a workaholic, she's determined, she's smart, witty and for her to become missing is very puzzling to me, because she's a fighter," said Ms. Ross.

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.