Sentence examples for a forceful player from inspiring English sources

Roddick flew a bit under the radar here for the first few rounds, but announced himself as a force against González, turning a forceful player into a punching bag.

The acquisition adds a forceful player to what is already a crowded field of companies aiming to deliver streamed entertainment to the living room.

Among the other things that might be said is that she is a forceful player but also a thoughtful one, and if those qualities seem at odds, each of her performances showed how they can work.

Mr. Farinacci is a clear, declarative, forceful player, and the two musicians went at it without a rhythm section for a while.

He was a "strong and forceful" player, able to hold the ball up in order to bring other players into the game.

Vunipola adjusted to his new life and, 10 years later, he was such a forceful rugby player he was offered a scholarship to Harrow.

But the Americans entered the Olympics without their most forceful player and leading scorer, forward Abby Wambach, who fractured the tibia and fibula in her left leg last month.

A wave of consolidation the last three months has linked Bestfoods with Unilever and Nabisco with Philip Morris, increasing the pressure on smaller companies like Heinz to eventually combine forces with others so that they can be forceful players in the global supermarket business.

A 2006 study by the United States Tennis Association, which has battled the trend somewhat successfully with a forceful campaign to recruit young players, found that punishing hurricane seasons factored into the decline of play in the South, while the soaring popularity of electronic games and newer sports like skateboarding was diminishing the number of new tennis players everywhere.

Ms. Browner, a lawyer, is well known in Washington and around the country as a forceful environmental advocate and experienced capital player.

A 20-year-old professional soccer player reported sustaining a forceful rotatory left knee injury during an official match of the Italian Second Division.