If you play a game to avoid penalties, then you play a non-assertive game.    From Wordnik.com.  [NHL - National Hockey League - San Jose vs. Pittsburgh] Reference

``Any'' occurs in non-assertive contexts, like negatives and conditionals.    From Wordnik.com.  [What if Hillary Clinton had to apologize for Bill?] Reference

In a gentle and non-assertive way without any harassing motivations at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helmet Hair] Reference

This was a new kind of good news indeed, a way of thinking and speaking about the world was, well, non-assertive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going With The Grain] Reference

And I told Alex, I think it was, how I didn't think Jess and I could ever really get along because she was so assertive and I was so non-assertive (I'm not sure what the word is).    From Wordnik.com.  [superhero99 Diary Entry] Reference

One day I came across Stafford's book Allegiances and was at once taken with the way in which his quiet, non-assertive, meditative poems seemed to gather resonance as they moved forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

Fiction is “hyper-assertive rather than non-assertive,” he said, able to make “stronger, more universalizable” claims than reliably “factual” discourses like history and philosophy.1.    From Wordnik.com.  [The authority to comment] Reference

Old Man Plumm was a non-assertive person, and good-natured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scattergood Baines] Reference

The plot of Eyeshield 21 revolves around a weak and non-assertive boy named.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anime Review! (Eyeshield 21) - William Howe's MySpace Blog |] Reference

• Speak loud enough to be easily heard Speaking in a whisper is non-assertive and annoying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It is humiliating to be passive, it is synonymous with being a pushover, with being weak, with being non-assertive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

Though Edgar is basically non-assertive, his grief and anger ultimately drive him to a necessary final confrontation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

People speak of dogmatism as if it were a method to be altogether outgrown and something for which some non-assertive philosophy could furnish a substitute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

I had tea with Abdur Razzaq, the Western-educated lawyer who is the party's assistant secretary-general, and he tried to persuade me that his party is comparable to Turkey's ruling AK Party - that is, a party of people who happen to be Islamic rather than an Islamist party, one that is pluralist-minded and non-assertive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

I made a non-assertive noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool cell/map data-processing] Reference

Workers who are very non-assertive.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Tapping into sources of influence] Reference

In that way, I'm totally non-assertive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fights Like a Girl] Reference

In that way, I’m totally non-assertive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fights Like a Girl | Her Bad Mother] Reference