The phrase "a forceful measure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a strong or assertive action taken to achieve a specific outcome, often in a context of policy or decision-making.
Example: "The government implemented a forceful measure to combat the rising crime rates in the city."
Alternatives: "an assertive action" or "a strong approach".
Either way, Mr Fukuda must then choose whether to let the bill die, or push it into law using the government's two-thirds majority in the lower house.That is a forceful measure, never used before, and Mr Ozawa threatens an upper-house censure.
Although its explosions lit the night sky and shook the walls of the camp, scaring some of the newer POWs, most saw it as a forceful measure to compel North Vietnam to finally come to terms.
He restored order, putting into effect a number of forceful measures.
FRANKFURT — Hours before European leaders were scheduled to hold a crisis summit meeting, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany won a mandate for more forceful measures to combat the sovereign debt crisis, including a huge reduction in Greece's debt load that would be swallowed by banks and other investors.
In anticipation of June's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech calling for forceful measures to wipe out drugs, and Premier Li Keqiang declared drugs to be a "common enemy to humanity".
To that extent, a postelection monetary penalty will not produce the desired result unless it includes more forceful measures, such as revoking a committee's registration, enjoining a candidate or organization from participation or notifying contributors when a violation of the law has been found.
"Our forceful measures are showing results," said a statistics bureau spokesman, Sheng Laiyun, at a news conference.
Indeed, Iran continues to make nuclear strides that, if reports of weapons-tinkering are true, will soon give it the ability to build a bomb secretly and at speed.In the wings of the UN General Assembly, the foreign ministers of the six again agreed on a dual-track strategy: engagement if possible, more forceful measures if not.
WASHINGTON — President Obama's nominee to become the new ambassador to Pakistan said on Tuesday that his top priority would be to press the government there to take more forceful measures against the Haqqani network, a Taliban affiliate whose leaders, sheltered in Pakistan, have mounted a series of attacks against American and other targets in Afghanistan.
During a visit to Brussels on Thursday, he said that his government would pursue "forceful" measures to "reduce the speed" of the economy "but not a sudden braking".
In 1999, for example, opposition by China and Russia prevented the Security Council from agreeing on forceful measures to end ethnic cleansing by Yugoslav and Serbian forces in Kosovo, prompting the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATOO) to take matters into their own hands through a massive bombing campaign against Serbian targets.
