Sentence examples for willingness to assert from inspiring English sources

The overall plan reflects China's growing sense of self-confidence and increasing willingness to assert its interests abroad.

Also a target: the team captain and catcher Jason Varitek, whose diminishing role and production might have limited his influence in the clubhouse, or his willingness to assert it.

For the whole region, the report found the most likely outcome to be what it called an "eroding balance" — essentially, a continuation of the current situation, in which American hegemony is slowly undermined by China's increasing military abilities and growing willingness to assert its interests.

The willingness to assert regularly such a doctrine would require a combination of moral clarity, grit and the ultimate ability to project military power that few nations within the European Union, our indispensable ally, appear likely to possess for the foreseeable future.

The true mark of civilization is its willingness to assert itself against its sworn enemies.

If this variation in willingness to assert is due to a variation in standards for knowledge, the DR requires a relativization to contexts.

Its downturn is due to a combination of vigorous and ubiquitous competition, a terrible economic climate, a lust for instant gratification and the brand's enduring lack of willingness to really assert itself in the public eye.

While it may indeed have legitimate claims on disputed territories, China's perceived willingness to energetically assert those claims by taking provocative unilateral action and forgoing negotiation has raised fears in neighboring capitals and decreased stability in a vitally important region.

The scale includes questions to assess an individual's willingness and ability to assert individual autonomy in relation to healthcare decisions, as well as if they hold a positive belief about the contribution to the health outcomes of the broader community made by individuals.

The diplomatic dispute underscored the increasing willingness of Egyptian activists to assert muscular foreign policy demands, as well as to repudiate alliances cultivated over decades without public approval by autocratic rulers.

Still, Mr. Xi has displayed a disturbing nationalist inclination as well as a willingness to back the military in its increasingly dangerous attempts to assert primacy in the South China and East China Seas over Japan and others.