You might have to be assertive to get the service folks to do the job.
If you do want to have a conversation, Purcell says, be assertive but not aggressive in your approach.
Their approach to the talks on the Free-Trade Area of the Americas is likely to be assertive but not hostile.
Be assertive and confident when dealing with a personality clash, but don't let assertiveness tip into aggressiveness or confidence become a confrontational stance.
Organizations such as the Girls Leadership Institute teach girls as young as 5 to express their feelings with friends and how to be assertive.
We've dramatically changed the way we raise our daughters, encouraging them to be assertive, play competitive sports and aim high in their educational and professional ambitions.
The obligation to be assertive is borrowed from America.
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Opponents retort that an elected Lords of any sort will be more assertive, routinely amending and delaying legislation.
She tells Elvira that to keep her husband, she must be more assertive.
Step out of your comfort zone to be more assertive and visible if you tend to stay in the background.
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Skipper Chanderpaul, meanwhile, has been urged to be more assertive by one of his predecessors, former fast bowler Courtney Walsh.
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Educated women tend to be more assertive, partly because they tend to earn more and so are less dependent on their husbands.
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), an influential organisation that advises big investors, late last year issued guidelines urging clients to be more assertive.
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In recent rulings the constitutional court has pushed the Bundestag to be more assertive when power or money is transferred to Europe.
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"You can't just expect people to walk in, " she says of cultural facilities, stressing the need for staff to be more assertive in marketing.
Should it get a big share of the vote, it might be encouraged to be more assertive in parliament than the authorities would like.
The commission wishes that the Obama administration would be more assertive.
All the same, western leaders should be more assertive.
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Both sides, wary of the other's strength, are seeking to strengthen regional alliances: America by schmoozing India and persuading Japan to be more assertive, China by cosying up to Russia and the Central Asian states.
And you are now seeing a situation in which a whole host of other countries are doing very well and coming into their own, and naturally they are going to be more assertive in terms of their interests and ideas.
Turkish foreign policy may be becoming more assertive, yet EU membership remains the priority.
When you need to be seen as assertive, remember that power is displayed by height and space.
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All elite groups (apart from the armed forces, for which no data were available) were less likely than they were in 1993 to say that America should be the most assertive of leading nations.
This in turn has prompted a steady procession of their MPs to pop up on the airwaves calling for their party to be more "assertive" within the government and to demonstrate that they are making a real difference.
In a report published on Monday, Public Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge said HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) needed to be "more aggressive and assertive in confronting corporate tax avoidance".
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