Compact and slightly piquant, this cheese has assertive smoky aroma and flavor with a pleasant butteriness on the finish.
So Hill did what any gutsy, spunky assertive women would do in her situation.
It has also been suggested that consumers who complain tend to be more self-confident and assertive.
Some readers dismiss her work, considering it insufficiently assertive of a politics of resistance.
Black fruits, pencil shavings, liquorice, sparky acidity and assertive tannins combine for a satisfying mouthful.
A good first step to becoming more assertive is to consider your own body language through role play.
For those used to the blandness of tofu, tempeh's assertive flavor may come as a surprise.
Hurley had reacted to her new singledom in a masculine assertive way, with a series of short, publicly passionate affairs.
Women often have a rich emotional life but struggle to express their needs and wants in clear, assertive, unambivalent, functional ways.
During this program, you'll learn the causes of unassertiveness and how to take action toward becoming more assertive.
Children should be taught to be assertive, but to walk away from dangerous situations.
If you don't like the assertive flavor of a blue cheese, try Asiago or feta cheese instead.
The seats may be uncomfortable and the music too assertive but we don't care!
Their personal simplicity and uncomplicatedness meshes well with the more assertive qualities of the Seven.
I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible.
He's a positive thinker now, full of can-do, upbeat mottoes and brimming over with assertive high spirits.
The winemaker has managed to keep the Nebbiolo grape's assertive tannins and acidity in check.
He regarded most of the new people as noisy, assertive, and ignorant of maritime knowledge, traditions and courtesy.
Atlanta players who attempted to show assertive self-dignity were silenced or knocked on their keisters.
She's assertive, aggressive, totally on top of her game and yet what happens to her is absurd.
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Flavours are assertive without being pungent and the food is satisfyingly filling without the heaviness of some of the other regional cuisines.
Chopped raw garlic lends an assertive flavor to vinaigrettes, salsas, and other sauces such as aioli.
If you're looking for something a little more assertive, try the half-Windsor knot, a modest version of the Windsor knot.
I have no problem in chatting up beautiful women, and I am in certain cases the assertive alpha male.
Even the most assertive and level-headed woman may feel doubt or a certain lack of self-confidence.
You are dynamic, forceful and assertive while making new beginnings at work and soft, gentle and loving in personal relationships today.
Being assertive means expressing yourself simply and directly, speaking for yourself and saying how you feel and what you want.
On Dig Your Own Hole, Beth Orton's looping lament to wasted comedown mornings gradually elided into one of that record's most assertive beats.
The tenor in these passages is definitive and assertive, quite at odds with the unassuming, almost diffident, tone of the rest of the book.
Mothers should train their daughters from a young age to protect themselves so that they grow up to be assertive.
He insists that while assertive management is needed, there is no place for aggression or bullying.
It would take only an assertive patient and a confident healthcare provider who is willing to listen.
On top of abuse, midwives also face a far more assertive and confident middle class mother than they did even 15 years ago.
It showed that she was finding it very hard to be assertive, and her son was confused by his mother's contradictory signals.
Although the prose is clear and readable it is also assertive, didactic and sometimes patronising.
The sheep, popularly incapable of individual decision, appears quite assertive.
The Emperor is often associated with Aries, which is a strong and assertive astrological fire sign.
With other less assertive bird species, the young can be moved from the ground and placed close to the parents.
Expressing your anger in an assertive, not aggressive, manner is the healthiest way to let out anger.
We just have to push a little harder, be a little more assertive, and I think we can pull it off.
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An assertive person makes his or her feelings known but remains in control of the situation.
You are assertive, bold and energetic, and this helps you move closer towards your goals.
I have become more assertive and self assured, and have found strengths within myself which I did not know existed.
That said, the text is often intractable or so annoyingly assertive as to appear priggish.
If there exist powerful forces that still oppose the rights of the Dalits, they do so against an entity that is empowered and assertive.
Well, as all offspring know, it is difficult to be assertive with a determined older parent who tells one to stop fussing unnecessarily.
Although quite small, the seven-year-old has become a remarkably assertive traveler.
Not being the most assertive of people even at the best of times, I made my excuses.
But there, a team of dedicated sheepdogs is helping individuals ranging from bullied children to shy businessmen become more assertive.
I am not the most assertive when it comes to putting the make on someone but I respond very well to seduction.
Not being the most assertive or forceful of people I take it all too personally and can get quite upset.
Melted with milk, this one produces the assertive, clean, nutty flavour that gives your palate a hit similar to a strong espresso coffee.
The tenor in these passages is assertive, quite at odds with the almost diffident tone of the rest of the book.
Still other imagery features assertive women who are seductresses and murderers.
If you want people to listen to your opinions, you'll need to learn to be more assertive.
And, in all fairness to Lady Gaga, any singer who matches up with Tony Bennett needs to get loud and assertive.
Instead they were becoming an assertive voice on the streets, and also online, for their rights.
His forthright, amiably assertive manner perhaps appealed to some readers.
And the people became more prosperous, more assertive, more individualist.
Harris's style is strong and assertive, imbued with an American melos of hymn tunes and folksongs, and using the orchestra to create powerful effects of block antiphony.
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These are strong, assertive readings, inspiringly so in the Brahms, which too often is played as if in a state of fear or Apollonian disinvolvement.
The two finales commence in a very assertive mood, always generating that kind of exciting energy which finally leads to a rousing and brilliant conclusion.
In future we are going to see a much more assertive parliament.
Women tend to be far more assertive with their trolleys than men.
They reported increased confidence in being more assertive with patients.
Another firm, assertive phone call heads my to-do list for tomorrow.
He is assertive, abrasive and aggressive, a tempestuous man of passion.
Are ad makers shaking in their shoes when they think about the impact of globalisation and the assertive entry of agencies and influences from abroad?
Yet few synesthesiacs are as triumphantly assertive expressers of color in art as Mitchell was.
With the Scherzo we are back to bare unisons and octaves, though now assertive, but the G with which the music starts makes the key unambiguously clear as C major.
Stella's sister was an altogether more assertive type and looking through the French windows into the garden, she complained about the unlaid table.
Keaton needs to be more assertive to get the ball upfield quickly.
He remained an assertive influence at William III's court, however, quarrelling and plotting against those whom he believed were thwarting his own ambitions.
And this is why those who have most benefited from playing the human rights card are those who already are assertive, intelligent, articulate and organised.
Visualize yourself as an outgoing assertive friendly person.
More assertive than ambient, but more chill than club music.
As the definition of workplace advocacy implies, these activities range from supporting and sustaining efforts to more innovative assertive measures.
She's as assertive and capable as he is petulant and out of his element.
A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
Jake's poised and assertive manner was diminishing before my very eyes.
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Over time they become more assertive, expressing themselves as compulsions and obsessions, phobias and prejudices, neuroses and psychosomatic illnesses.
Meanwhile in India, women are deliberately performing in black, and using the inspiration of the devadasis to represent nayikas with an assertive sexuality of their own.
The assertive title boldly lettered on the gunmetal gray book spine makes this volume look like another tiresome autobiography by a former SAS trooper.
From Bajans and Trinis I've learned that we Jamaicans are an aggressive, assertive bunch of people.
Olga Rudge visited him twice, once in 1952 and again in 1955, and was unable to convince him to be more assertive about his release.
When a shy person decides to be assertive, they go over the top.
If the nail technician said something she wasn't comfortable with, Christine should have dealt with it like a strong, assertive, capable woman.
An assertive illocution can be regarded as unmarked, while interrogative or imperative illocutions are marked, for which there are two reasons.
Philip had come to power in 1180 and he rapidly demonstrated that he could be an assertive, calculating and manipulative political leader.
One is not sure how assertive can a knickerless woman in a red bra be against the military rule.
Gwen John's art, in its quietude and its subtle colour relationships, stands in contrast to her brother's far more vivid and assertive work.
The man responsible was the new aggressively assertive Archbishop of York, Thurstan.
And finally, don't be a wuss. Have a rich-man's attitude. Men who have money are generally confident and assertive.
Following the Gregorian Reform, an assertive, reformist papacy attempted to increase its power and influence.
Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.
In Asia, Japan became an ever more assertive power, especially with regards to China.
When launching an assertive attack, red foxes approach directly rather than sideways, with their tails aloft and their ears rotated sideways.
A blue cheese is happy only in the company of an assertive dessert wine, but it's better to play safe and not have one on your menu.
No longer dependent on the Lords for their seats, MPs grew more assertive.
Meanwhile, the royal authority became more and more assertive, centred on a hierarchically conceived society distinguishing nobility, clergy, and commoners.
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Behind a slightly assertive, grapey nose, it is a clean, full wine with pronounced acidity and flavours of white pepper, celery and a touch of minerals.
Argentina has become increasingly assertive over its claims to the islands that it calls the Malvinas, as well as the British-held South Georgia and South Sandwich islands.
Molland's wife, Kathie, had been taking a more assertive role in the band's politics, which did not endear her to the rest of the band, particularly Ham.
In the ensuing years, the Commons grew more assertive, the influence of the House of Lords having been reduced by the Reform Bill crisis, and the power of the patrons reduced.

There was in them something else, or more, than the assertive grossness of life.
Finally, she was able to become an assertive seller of small items throughout the area.
In this study, it was hypothesized that older women may exhibit more assertive behavior as a result of coping with major social changes.
He was a slender fellow with close-clipped, assertive red hair.
He represents the assertive, Jacksonian period of our national existence.
If you look at people throughout life, not just in the working environment, it is always the assertive people who are happy and successful.
He irritated the older men by his assertive manner, and his cocksureness.
The nature of habit is to be assertive, insistent, self-perpetuating.
As the stove grew hotter, the unpleasantness grew assertive.
The results of this study indicate that there is a positive relationship between assertive behavior and degree of acceptance of disability among persons with disabilities.

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