Hoping to strengthen his negotiating position in coming trade talks with the United States, Brazil's president-elect began an unofficial visit to Argentina and Chile here today with an emphatic call for a new regional "strategic relationship" to "allow us to retake control of our own destiny and build our own future".
President Obama has made an emphatic call for new gun regulations, but he so far has not spent extensive political capital on the effort.
The next batter, Pat Burrell, lined a ball to left that curled foul, with the third-base umpire, Laz Diaz, making an emphatic call.
With a sizable pot of ready cash and stakes in a few elite European companies — including the British publisher Pearson and the Italian soccer club Juventus — the fund served as an emphatic calling card for its founder, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, a son of the Libyan ruler who was once regarded as the reformer in the family.
"Let's try to make some money!" he screams in the opening title sequence of every show; it must kill this prophet of profit that he can't responsibly drop that wimpy, tempered "try" and shout out a more emphatic call to arms.
Barack Obama is expected to make a calm but emphatic call this week for the UK to remain inside the European Union, using his status as Britain's firmest ally to counsel that the country's prosperity and influence will be irreversibly diminished outside the EU.
Final legislation should be galvanized by the commission's report — particularly its emphatic call for the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs to reform and mesh their disastrous record-keeping systems.
The next batter, Burrell, lined one just foul to left, with third-base umpire Laz Diaz making an emphatic "foul" call.
I asked if there was any common ground between him and Jongen, and he replied with an emphatic no, calling Jongen "a complete impostor".
Although Mr. Graham said he would no longer try to block the nomination, he was far from giving it an emphatic endorsement, calling Mr. Hagel "one of the most unqualified, radical choices for secretary of defense in a very long time".
