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

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

At the same time, during the World Cup, fans are not only universal they are also unique, and they can express their difference with impunity, sometimes in the most assertive, aggressive, and, unfortunately, occasionally racist manner. In a world of multiple identities, to choose one s team is in part to decide who one is.

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

Thus, China s rulers acted in character last December, when they cracked down on news organizations that were getting a bit too assertive.

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

This assertive and high profile operation immediately established the visibility and authority of EUFOR and made a positive early impact both nationally and internationally.

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.

Russia is not becoming assertive, aggressive, or imperial, as many observers claim. We are only claiming what is rightfully ours a place in the front row of international relations.

This prospect is hardly encouraging. If abuses and repression in the provinces continue no matter how attentive the central government, or how assertive the press might have become, what then?

A rising China, a resurgent Japan, an assertive Russia, and an anachronistic North Korea have added new complexities and uncertainties to the region. The latter s pursuit of nuclear arms is particularly worrying.

This four year strategy will result in the provision of much needed services (Crisis Management, Case Management, Assertive Community Treatment Teams and Early Intervention) to an additional 78,000 people by 2007 2008.

Others, however, see a Chinese strategy that is confused, contradictory, and paralyzed by competing bureaucratic interests. They point to the negative results of China s more assertive policies since the economic crisis of 2008.

Information technology grows in an exponential manner.

It's being done in a rigorous manner.

Democracy remains a worthy and widespread goal, but it is important to distinguish the goal from the means used to attain it. There is a difference between assertive promotion and more gentle support of democratization.

A second obstacle to sustained recovery is the eurozone s bad neighborhood. Russia is becoming more assertive and aggressive in Ukraine, the Baltics, and even the Balkans (while sanctions against Russia have hurt many European economies).

And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner and the people answered him again after the former manner.

And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner and the people answered him again after the former manner.

So long as the EU continues to sway between integration and containment, it will continue to appear to the Kremlin as weak and directionless. That, in turn, will merely encourage Russia to become even more assertive.

The Chinese urge is to break from the confines of their country s history, and thus China s own geography. An assertive and relatively stable China, it seems, must expand, lest pent up internal pressures tear it apart.

I don't like his affected manner of speaking.

And he wrote a letter after this manner

And he wrote a letter after this manner

If Sunnis triumph there, they may become more assertive in countries that have large Shia populations. It is not often recognized that Pakistan has the world s second largest Shia population, after Iran, with roughly 50 million adherents.

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

I have trouble putting up with his rude manner.

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

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, you know, feeling sort of shut down. And we've all had the feeling, right?

Exceptional risk must be defined in a situation specific manner.

The review process was conducted in a procedurally sound manner.

And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.

And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.

And that was the manner in which the crucial goal came.

This represents a superficial manner of dealing with the real issues.

They should not be used in a vexatious or punitive manner.

UNODC implements the drug and crime programmes in an integrated manner.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

NEW DELHI Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier.

The third development occurred in Japan, where the newly elected Liberal Democratic government of Shinzo Abe, commanding a two thirds parliamentary majority, is pressing the Bank of Japan to stimulate growth a discussion that looks set to evolve into something much more assertive.

If China becomes a bully in the Asia Pacific region, other countries will join the US to confront it. Indeed, that is why many of China s neighbors have strengthened their ties with the US since 2008, when China s foreign policy became more assertive.

And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.