assertiveness

When she tries to join a conversation between two men at dinner she is chastened for her assertiveness.

The assertiveness China already shows in Asia and Africa is just the beginning.

I absolutely love the assertiveness of olives and capers, especially when paired with a meaty fish like swordfish.

His assertiveness was compelling, and even the captain displayed symptoms of being impressed.

Those qualities were greed and persistence in acquisitiveness, cunning and subtlety, also bragging and self-assertiveness.

He had a peculiar manner of wriggling from the bottom of his back, with fussy self-assertiveness.

His self-assertiveness irritated those who were accustomed to look for nothing but deference from the persons about them.

But his vanity was that of an honest man, and he was often stung to assertiveness by the malignities of his enemies.