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self-assertiveness - definition and meaning
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from The Century Dictionary.
noun
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Sometimes people who are essentially dependent and fearful choose a form of self-assertiveness that is self-destructive.
Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010
Their own form of self-assertiveness is protest—whether it makes sense or not.
Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010
… While healthy self-assertiveness requires the ability to say no, it is ultimately tested not by what we are against, but what we are for… self-assertiveness asks that we not only oppose what we deplore but that we live and express our values.29
Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010
Self-defense and self-assertiveness training is crucial ... even better, a detective relative, like EE's.
Why so dark? 2007
While Bond likes to complain about "the cheap self-assertiveness of young labor since the war" and the "buyer's market of the welfare state," he is conscious as well of declining British power and prestige, and resents the way that he and his country are patronized by the Americans.
Box 2009
New prosperity is reawakening nationalist pride and self-assertiveness in China and Japan just as selfdoubt is tempting Americans to turn inward.
The Coming Power Struggle 2008
A new spirit is abroad on the continent, and the people of Africa are determined to use their newly-harnessed energy, pride and self-assertiveness to chart their own course of development and extricate themselves from the lowest rungs of human development.
Strategy and Tactics of the ANC 2007
A new spirit is abroad on the continent, and the people of Africa are determined to use their newly-harnessed energy, pride and self-assertiveness to chart their own course of development and extricate themselves from the lowest rungs of human development.
ANC 52nd National Conference 2007 2007
Add a rising military challenge from China, as well as a growing sense of national self-assertiveness at home, and the result is a flourishing new debate about a once taboo idea -- the need for a full-fledged central intelligence service, something that postwar Japan has so far done without.
Japan: Minor-League Spies 2007
A new spirit is abroad on the continent, and the people of Africa are determined to use their newly-harnessed energy, pride and self-assertiveness to chart their own course of development and extricate themselves from the lowest rungs of human development.
BUILDING A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY [STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE ANC] 2007
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