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.

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.

So actually we are getting less from more for less and less people.

Less meat, less junk, more plants.

It's more with less and less again.

Fiona's letters gradually came less and less.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

I say, less and less the human touch.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Fiona's letters were becoming less and less frequent.

Letters from Fiona came gradually less and less.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

That their parents be less tired and less stressed.

People are less kind. There is less trust around.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

We in public health, we hate child death, so we want less and less and less of child deaths.

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.

And then the other areas become less and less positive.

They work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare.

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?

We try and do more and more with less and less time.

And I have also, every year, seen less and less sea ice.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.

Less safe!

And that isn't true when you get less miserable, you get less miserable.

But with the rise of interstate trucking, it was used less and less.

We can use less oil faster than they can conveniently sell less oil.

We spent a lot less on education, about 35 percent less on education.

If they get less and less happy, that will be bad for Americans.

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.

As I became less and less human and at this moment in my life, I was probably 30 pounds less than I am right now.

Australians have about a third less heart disease than we do less deaths from heart attacks, heart failure, less strokes they're generally a healthier bunch.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego. But can a man act against his deepest nature?

And more and more, less and less awareness of the pain of the other.

So less waste.

Less noise, please.

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.

Fiscal consolidation means less public spending. And less spending means less upward pressure on prices which is the last thing Europe needs in a deflationary environment.

As we make them smaller and less expensive, the electrons have less distance to travel.