(1) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(2) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(3) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
(4) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
(5) Successful treatment also requires the use of assertive case management, community support, family support, and careful patient education.
(6) The UN-recognised parliament is expected to meet on Monday for a vital vote of confidence in the new administration, the next step in asserting its authority in the country.
(7) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(8) Is it a moment where culture needs to assert its values?
(9) She described Luke as being “open, honest and assertive” during the interview.
(10) Individuals in the middle received relatively large amounts of assertive behavior.
(11) No differences were observed on the behavioral role plays, which required assertion in a number of heterosexual situations.
(12) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.
(13) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
(14) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(15) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
(16) We assert that OCD and AVN are relatively common, clinically significant lesions of the mandibular condyle often associated with preexisting internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint.
(17) On the basis of the results of the research the Authors conclude by asserting that the combined use of mannitol and propanol has a real protective effect in preventing or attenuating lesions of the kidney caused by serious acute renal failure.
(18) Grade said he objected to Dyke's assertion in the Times that he used information about the BBC's schedule when he quit as chairman of the corporation in late 2006 to move to ITV.
(19) The ethnomedical model asserts that efforts to secure the compliance of target populations are likely to be inadequate without an alliance between health professionals and communities to identify and address mutually comprehensible objectives that are perceived locally as meaningful and relevant.
(20) Moreover, the heterogeneity of ES components questions the assertion of previous workers that the allergenic, IgE-potentiating, and protective activities of larval ES can be ascribed to one molecular species.
Audacious
Definition:
(a.) Daring; spirited; adventurous.
(a.) Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.
(a.) Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
(2) Who else in American politics would be so audacious as to have one spouse accept money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charted American foreign policy?” Schweizer asks.
(3) China has penetrated the Foreign Office's internal communications in the most audacious example yet of the growing threat posed by state-sponsored cyber-attacks, it emerged tonight.
(4) Reading the extraordinary details in Michael Beloff’s independent ethics commission report and the second part of Dick Pound’s independent commission report, published on Thursday , it is becoming increasingly clear Diack and his two sons, plus his legal counsel Habib Cissé, were running an audacious shadow operation that grasped opportunity where ever it came.
(5) Five minutes into the second half the Nigerian attacker produced an audacious flick over the head of Borges before sending a pinpoint cross to Smith, only for the veteran striker to head on to the crossbar.
(6) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
(7) The launch of Sky Atlantic follows the broadcaster's audacious £150m, five-year deal to snap up the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, new HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
(8) An audacious youth leader once tipped as a future president of South Africa has been expelled from the governing African National Congress (ANC).
(9) In a recent Facebook post, he called The Putin Interviews “a four-hour audacious climax to my strange life as an American film-maker”.
(10) One of the brewery’s two founders, James Watt, pronounced the drink “an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion”.
(11) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
(12) Under Rossetto, stories written in the UK had to be vetted to see if they were sufficiently "Wired" - with San Francisco (US Wired's base) even vetoing the attempt to bring in two audacious hires: Douglas Adams as editor and Neville Brody as creative director.
(13) The different sketches and 3D renditions of the ten projects make audacious and compelling viewing (see them here ).
(14) He breathed new life into a somewhat static side, heading their second equaliser from a corner, almost scoring with a fabulously audacious shot and then creating what seemed to be the winner for Mike Williamson.
(15) In his speech on Monday, he makes an audacious raid on Labour territory, claiming the Tories are now the “true party of labour”.
(16) He said the organoid was "audacious and the similarities with some of the features of a human brain really quite astounding".
(17) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
(18) The Zappa statue was audaciously suggested by local artists in 1992, as a slightly flippant test of their country's newfound democratic freedoms; to their surprise, the authorities called their bluff.
(19) Even more audaciously, they then went on to post real-time email exchanges between Gawker staffers that they had hacked into, in which the employees discussed how they were coming under attack.
(20) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?