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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a forceful call" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a strong or emphatic request or demand for action or attention.
Example: "The activist made a forceful call for climate action during the conference."
Alternatives: "a strong appeal" or "an urgent demand."
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Did you see this as an opportunity to make a forceful call for action?
An outstanding example is James Montgomery Flagg's famous U.S. recruiting poster of Uncle Sam pointing directly at the viewer, a forceful call to patriotism during World War I.
Western and African political leaders have issued a forceful call for a military intervention in Mali, a country struggling with severe food shortages, drought and conflict.
President Obama on Friday made a forceful call to narrow the government's access to millions of Americans' phone records as part of an overhaul of surveillance activities that have raised concerns about official overreach.
Göran Palm, whose poems in conversational language describe everyday reality, was among the first to transgress the poetic conventions of the 1950s, while Göran Sonnevi's poem "Om kriget i Vietnam" (1965; "On the War in Vietnam") served as a forceful call to action for the young generation.
In a televised address from Jidda, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, Mr. Hariri's son, Saad Hariri, made a forceful call for a tribunal to oversee the issue, asking the international community "to support the international commission into the assassination of Mr. Hariri to bring out the full truth and bring the perpetrators to justice in an international court".
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To improve this narrative, combining a heroic character with a clear moral, or solution, could move this narrative from simple critique to something more akin to a forceful call-to-action.
In an unusually forceful call for a single agency, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, told Mr. Durbin that the current system is not set up to deal effectively with an act of bioterrorism.
Mingling drama, music, song and photography -- as creative act and projected image -- this fast-moving well-acted tale is a quiet but forceful call for art to alert itself to the impact of politics.
As fellow veterans and medically trained tour staff moved quickly to assist John, a strong and forceful call was heard, one heard countless times decades before throughout Iwo's bloody battlefield.
On Monday, François Hollande, the French president, said that Paris would recognize a provisional Syrian government as soon as it had been formed, in the most forceful call to date by a Western country for Mr. Assad's ouster.
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