So powerful people tend to be, not surprisingly, more assertive and more confident, more optimistic.

Without personal experience of China s recent traumatic history, the next generation will be more confident and assertive.

It is time for the Assembly to be more assertive within the mandate accorded it by the Charter.

That, in turn, will merely encourage Russia to become even more assertive.

There is a difference between assertive promotion and more gentle support of democratization.

There is a difference between assertive promotion of democracy and more gentle support.

So powerful people tend to be not surprisingly more assertive and more confident more optimistic they actually feel that they're gonna win even at the games of chance.

If anything, Abe is even more committed to building an assertive and unapologetic Japan.

If Sunnis triumph there, they may become more assertive in countries that have large Shia populations.

They point to the negative results of China s more assertive policies since the economic crisis of 2008.

These assertive approaches have made the United Nations appear more relevant to the peoples of the world.

In implementing the unitary United Nations concept, Member States would need to be far more assertive in guiding and setting the policy agenda of agencies.

Finally, as China has become more confident and assertive, its shadow over Russia has grown longer and thicker.

More significant, Japan s leaders are now openly debating ways to transform the country s post World War II pacifism into a much more assertive nationalism.

This was recognized by the DPJ, which would like Japan to play a more independent role, as a more equal ally, rather than a mere protectorate, of the US, and thus be a more assertive political player in Asia.

Indeed, overconfidence in assessing its power led to more assertive Chinese foreign policy behavior in the latter part of 2009 and 2010.

With Merkel, the substance of Germany s foreign policy will change little, but the assertive style will be muted.

There is thus little reason to believe that a more explicitly assertive stance is necessary for dealing with the splittist government in Taipei.

In principle, everyone wants heavy hitters in practice, many national leaders resist the idea of a more independent and assertive team in Brussels.

More recently, local commissions, non governmental organizations, an increasingly assertive media, and sanctioned public demonstrations have become established channels for mediating social conflict.

Indonesia s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has perhaps been the most assertive.

China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas that would be described diplomatically as assertive, and more bluntly as bullying.

In 2010, for example, as China became more assertive in its foreign policy toward its neighbors, its relations with India, Japan, and South Korea suffered.

Russia is not becoming assertive, aggressive, or imperial, as many observers claim.

Confronted after 1906 with a more assertive Russia, Austria Hungary resorted to increasing reliance on Germany, thereby relinquishing the empire s special status as a geopolitical stabilizer.

Against that background, China s increasingly assertive territorial and maritime claims threaten Asian peace and stability.

Sub Saharan African Muslims are less assertive, and they face considerably more difficulties in their attempts to articulate their rights and establish their presence in their respective states and regions.

Now, however, these activists have become more assertive, launching campaigns against a number of proposed dams along the Nu and Jinsha Rivers in Yunnan and the Min River in Sichuan.

They tend to have proactive and assertive foreign policies and aspire to more than the middle power status and limited niche style influence enjoyed by Canada, Sweden, or Saudi Arabia.

So two minutes lead to these hormonal changes that can configure your brain to basically be either assertive, confident, and comfortable or really stress reactive.

But, at some point in the last decade, China s leaders evidently decided that their country s moment had finally arrived its peaceful rise has since given way to a more assertive approach.

After the 2008 2009 financial crisis, as China recovered rapidly and resumed 10 annual economic growth, some Chinese officials and commentators urged a more assertive foreign policy to reflect China s new strength.

Could that model be applied to Japan s relations with its former enemies, from Korea to China? And today, with the irresistible rise of a more assertive China, the European example of a continent where the prospect of war between traditional enemies or contemporary rivals has simply disappeared is more attractive than ever.

An assertive and relatively stable China, it seems, must expand, lest pent up internal pressures tear it apart.

Assertive community treatment, or ACT, is an intensive and highly integrated approach for community mental health service delivery.

Outreach programmes must be set up to identify talented and assertive women for use as role models, and through educational and innovative approaches to enhance their self confidence.

Although increasingly assertive in Africa and Latin America, China largely remains a free rider under the American security umbrella.

So two minutes lead to these hormonal changes that configure your brain to basically be either assertive, confident and comfortable, or really stress reactive, and feeling sort of shut down.

Can this change? Germany certainly became assertive, owing mostly to the social pressures and tensions incited by rapid economic growth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin s assertive foreign policy stance of recent years reflects the confidence that comes with a booming economy.

Obama s foreign and defense policies have been assertive, to say the least, especially in the Middle East and the Pacific.

You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.

Indeed, an increasingly assertive China has proven a diplomatic boon for the US in strengthening and expanding its Asian security relationships.

Thailand's experience has taught us that, ultimately, developing nations can and should become equal and assertive partners in our own development.

Aside from the explosive situation in the Middle East and the threat of Islamist terrorism, the West is now confronted with the rise of Asia, the return of a more assertive Russia, and new energy and environmental challenges.