What's the difference between assertive and uncooperative?

Assertive


Definition:

  • (a.) Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Uncooperative


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
  • (2) Obstacles to successful treatment include an erratic schedule, mistrust of authority, and uncooperative or aggressive behavior.
  • (3) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
  • (4) Conscious sedations were performed on 20 uncooperative 2-4-year old children.
  • (5) A method is described for obtaining consistently high-quality images during nonneurologic computed tomography of the severely ill and uncooperative patient using a neuromuscular blocker to induce apnea.
  • (6) Proficiency in the recognition and interpretation of these clinical symptoms, physical signs, laboratory data, ECGs, and radiographic findings is important when evaluating acutely ill, uncooperative, or unresponsive patients.
  • (7) Frequently, the uncooperative patient is labeled as having a poor or defiant attitude toward orthodontic treatment.
  • (8) The results showed a significant difference between DHEC and placebo with regard to total and partial scores of SCAG as well as to single items (mental alertness, recent memory, disorientation, anxiety, mood depression, emotional lability, motivation, uncooperativeness, fatigue, headache, tinnitus).
  • (9) The subjects of the investigation were 45 uncooperative patients who had difficulty in accepting regular dental treatment.
  • (10) From the outset, he was dealt a severe handicap: an uncooperative and reform-averse Senate.
  • (11) The use of this simple and reliable technique for recording the electroretinogram made it possible to include this investigation as a routine procedure without the need for sedation in infants and uncooperative children.
  • (12) Based on its use in unilateral family therapy with 68 spouses of uncooperative alcohol abusers, procedural guidelines, criteria for use, and two case examples from a crossover experimental dyad are described.
  • (13) Splenic Mchi, however, are neither uncooperative nor inhibitory when interacting with peritoneal T cells.
  • (14) Pediatric cancer patients often become anxious, agitated, combative, and uncooperative due to the pain or fear of pain during invasive procedures.
  • (15) At the present time they are the best objective non-invasive audiometric tests (versus subjective psychoacoustic examinations) for predicting hearing thresholds in infants and uncooperative patients.
  • (16) For those who had a depressive state and who became uncooperative, "conjoint" sessions with the patients and their family members (e.g.
  • (17) Riders are labeled as uncooperative, selfish, not team players – it must be the case, rider A has been in the sport four years and has moved teams each year.
  • (18) The incidence of 'uncooperativeness' and drug side-effects, and the proportion of participants who complied with and completed treatment also varied significantly from country to country.
  • (19) Contraindications for gastric lavage are similar to those for emesis except that it may be safer to use in obtunded, comatose, or uncooperative patients.
  • (20) The students spent a great proportion of their time examining the child, yet their findings were questionable particularly if the child was uncooperative.