Example Sentences

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Instead, half of all baby girls born in America would be named Empowerment or Assertiveness.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2019

Assertiveness doesn’t just mean being bold enough to express the idea but having enough experience and judgment to feel true authority about its value.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017

And I thought, Wow, you’re like what Prof. Margaux in Assertiveness Class used to call “a real human being.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2010

Their companies had put up $800 to $900 a head to enroll them in courses like "Time Management" and "Assertiveness Training for Managers."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Assertiveness", "masterfulness", and the "mastery impulse" are alternative names.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.