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Example sentences for: assertive

How can you use “assertive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

that "a husband has more of a chance to keep his marriage together if he is rough and abusive but assertive than if he is kind and considerate but submissive."
President Carter's assertive national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, took charge, and the coordination function remained thereafter in the White House.
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."
Both are assertive.
This is a far cry from the assertive Emperor Meiji, whose radical social and political policies in the late-19th century launched Japan into the modern era.