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For underneath Martin's awe lurked his assertive ego, and he felt the urge to measure himself with these men and women and to find out what they had learned from the books and life which he had not learned.

The change comes disturbingly, with the force of a sudden vocation, bringing in its train agonizing doubts, assertive violences, an unstable state of the soul, till the final appeasement of the convert in the perfect fierceness of conviction.

I contend that the possibility of a lexical subject or a controlled null category in to-infinitive complements has to do with the Case properties of the matrix predicate, not with its (non) assertive value; actually, one can find both Control and ECM infinitive complements after [+assertive] predicates (e.g.

Because they often believe their lives are controlled by others, they lack the skill, knowledge, desire and confidence to be assertive.

"Pushy for a Moment" encourages you to be assertive, not aggressive.

The 15x15m cube is as formally assertive and alien as is imaginable; a hulking great mass of copper, dropped onto the terrain.

H3: In a non emergency situation verbal abuse would be considered less acceptable, affective arousal to verbal abuse would be greater and the intended behavioural response would be more assertive than in an emergency situation.

Fortunately, there is also a range of styles, textures and level of intensity in blue cheese today -- from creamy and mild to crumbly and assertive -- to suit every palate.

So, the real moral of the fictional account of Nurse Sally's story is that you really can get your needs and wants met--not through aggressive, in-your-face confrontations--but via effective, positive and assertive communications.

Set in the inner city, Another Stereotype Bites the Dust follows the educated yet underachieving AfricanAmerican writer Lemont Brown and his friends, an assertive Mexican-American woman and a mooching, rapper who still lives with his mother.

Set in the inner city, Another Stereotype Bites the Dust follows the educated yet underachieving African-American writer Lemont Brown and his friends, an assertive Mexican-American woman and a mooching, rapper who still lives with his mother.

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member Francis Flynn, the most identifiable trait that can hold someone back from becoming a great leader is being too assertive -- or not assertive enough.