If he had a shortcoming, fellow Council members said, it was that he was more liked than feared, and that his reluctance to offend sometimes prevented him from articulating a more forceful vision.
Haider Ackermann transformed his mannish leathers and soft drapes into a full-on and forceful vision of a woman's pride.
But he bowed to others' more forceful vision and became its public face.So it was too with his other legacy the radical economic reforms that turned New Zealand from the "Poland of the Pacific" into a neo-liberal laboratory.
In clear and powerful contrast to the current Republican right's anti-social mixture of radical individualism, cultural ressentiment, worship of Mammon, and contempt for the afflicted, Obama and Clinton, each in his own way, offered an unapologetic, forceful, coherent vision of a decent and healthy society.
But Sept. 11 was a constant backdrop, and as Mr. Giuliani promoted his vision of a forceful foreign policy that calls for the United States to continue slugging it out in Iraq, he let his audiences know that his was an outlook forged by fire.
We must re-energize our vision by making a forceful case when Democrats will govern again that we will make government the people's champion, not captive to the powerful.
Will have to be a forceful reminder of the power of George Lucas's original vision to match the galactic hype.
He is a forceful, arguably brilliant man, tactical, often funny, with an unconventional vision for Africa as united and economically developed.
It might not be quite the masterpiece some hoped for, but Shadows of the Damned is a forceful reminder that Japanese game development is far more alive than the denizens of this deliriously demented vision of the underworld.
The firm's $93 billion SoftBank Vision Fund is the largest-venture corporate venture investment vehicle ever — and it was a forceful presence in Q3, backing many of the quarter's largest rounds.
