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The phrase "a forceful warning to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize the seriousness or intensity of a warning directed at someone or something.
Example: "The report served as a forceful warning to the government about the potential consequences of inaction on climate change."
Alternatives: "a stern warning to" or "a strong admonition to".
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WASHINGTON — Only two weeks after Washington and the nation were debating a unilateral military strike on Syria that was also intended as a forceful warning to Iran about its nuclear program, President Obama finds himself at the opening stages of two unexpected diplomatic initiatives with America's biggest adversaries in the Middle East, each fraught with opportunity and danger.
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The commercial is a forceful warning shot, intended to prevent the city's elected leaders from changing term limits.
In his address, Mr. Romney also made sure to praise Mr. Clinton, who, at the Democratic National Convention, offered a forceful warning against returning Republicans to the White House.
But with Mr. Bloomberg publicly flirting with the concept of allowing elected officials to serve three consecutive terms rather than the current two, and with most council members receptive to the idea, the opponents said they felt compelled to fire a forceful warning shot.
Wyeth appealed, contending that federal drug regulators did not call for such a forceful warning and instead approved a label that simply stated a preference for a less risky method of administering the drug.
She sued Wyeth, the drug's maker, claiming the company should have put a more forceful warning on the drug's label.
He treasured religion for its conservative aspects, standing as it does above mundane secular struggles, and his forceful warning against an inclination of some believers to ally themselves with political power might these days be called into service by the American Civil Liberties Union.
A wisecracking, self-deprecating, third-generation Washingtonian, Ms. MacGuineas has spent years issuing forceful warnings about threats to the solvency of Social Security and to the pristine bond rating of American debt, often using Washington dinner parties as her soap box.
Other officials believe Iran is using the attacks to send a warning to the United States that it can inflict casualties on American troops if the United States takes a more forceful posture toward it.
An unambiguously forceful warning, backed up by a credible threat of commensurate force, is the only guarantee that even the zealous, isolated North Koreans would hear.
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