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- a aggressively self-assured
an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue
pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act
- PTI: Do you agree that Iran is playing a more assertive role in the Middle East, at the expense of moderate states like Egypt? Mubarak: It is not "how assertive" a certain role .
- PTI: But you said in the book that the CIA was in some places more assertive with the President than it was elsewhere TENET: I think that we were more assertive on aluminum tubes.
- Non-assertiveness takes a variety of forms.