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Example sentences for: assertive

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Those feminists who emphasize success within the world as we know it tend to encourage women to purge their speech of tag endings and to retrain themselves to speak in what is perceived as a more masculine, more assertive way.
He also accused Washington of "seeking two privileged [European] allies: Poland in the east, Britain in the west" with, as its goal, "the gradual undoing of the assertive policies of the European Union, and rejection of a political Europe led by France and Germany, in favor of a NATO under U.S.-British control."
A simple John Doe suggests that you are rather outspoken, an assertive loner.
President Carter's assertive national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, took charge, and the coordination function remained thereafter in the White House.
Both are assertive.