Intelligent criticism is Dunphy's forte and his line about John Hartson's extensive rear-end remains one his best: "That is not the arse of a £7m player".
Cool finishing has not been Valdano's forte in this World Cup but now he calmly drew Schumacher off his line and slipped the ball past him inside the far post.
The forte of lobbying firm Westbourne is in mobilising voices behind its clients.
As store groups face declining sales, their profit margins will come under greater pressure.Mr Silverstein is co-author of "Trading Up", a book published last month which argues that there is a growing market for luxury goods, just the sort of products that used to be the department stores' forte.
And in general, expanding social insurance against economic risk isn't really libertarianism's forte.
He has written off the tax code ("9,500 pages of gibberish"), and brushed off nuclear accidents ("If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good").Diplomatic niceties are clearly not his forte.
As he slurred his monotone words, the crowd yawned, and quickly thinned.Style may not be his forte, but Mr Mwanawasa has successes under his belt.
His real forte may be on the numbers side, however.
Instead, China has worked hard to engage with America this was Mr Jiang's forte, with his penchant for singing "Love Me Tender" and quoting the Gettysburg address and also with its neighbours and the wider world.
For his part André Lévy Lang, Paribas' president, asserts that BNP's offer is hugely risky, and lacks financial logic; nor, he points out,would it pay a premium over the banks' current share prices.SG Paribas, as the two plan to call their merged entity, wants to have a combination of retail banking (SocGen's forte) and investment banking (Paribas's).
Some Poles think a more radical, even Thatcherite, economic message might help, but economics is not their forte.
