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.
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.
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".
In a report published on Monday, the committee's chairwoman Margaret Hodge said the level of tax taken from some multinational firmswas "outrageous" and that HM Revenue and Customs needed to be "more aggressive and assertive in confronting corporate tax avoidance".
Questioning may revolve around whether it is possible for the Upper House of Parliament to be elected and not become more assertive in the use of its existing powers.
She tells Elvira that to keep her husband, she must be more assertive.
Everyone -- women and men -- need to be more aware of the social cost of punishing girls for being too assertive.
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