Sentence examples for weren't assertive from inspiring English sources
The legislators were corporate shills; the union leaders weren't assertive enough.
They wouldn't be the plants they are if they were not assertive, hugely adaptable, cosmopolitan.
"England were not assertive enough in their batting, they just didn't score enough runs quickly enough.
Typical of many women, their most common explanations are personal, not structural, failure: they were not assertive enough or lacked vision.
From the conference I discovered that a lot of my friends were not assertive, they lacked confidence and in some instances could not access education because they were girls.
"They thought I wasn't assertive, and so they sent me for assertiveness training for women, called 'guerrilla war tactics for women in business,'" she says, recalling how they taught to lower and project her voice.
"Czech women aren't assertive enough," she said.
His meticulous attention to the physical world isn't assertive but self-questioning.
Fischer says that he told the executive numerous times that she wasn't assertive enough, but he felt that she wasn't hearing him.
A key difficulty is that Mei Xiang places herself in what he called "pancake position" — flat on her stomach, legs outstretched — and Tian Tian isn't assertive enough to lift her off the ground.
