For a president teetering on the edge of a single term, making a more forceful case at Hofstra University on Long Island on Tuesday night could hardly have been more imperative.
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.
Orwell's sentences are so forceful that hardly a single one of them escapes political incorrectness of one type or another, yet he remained on the left to the premature end of his life, in 1950.
Studies of grip strength typically examine maximum force during a single repetition, but this type of exertion is relatively rare in the workplace, where tasks frequently involve repeated forceful dynamic grasping or prolonged static holding.
Out of the car window, I could see the scrub of tough grasses, sturdy little bushes barely moving despite the incessant and forceful westerlies and not a single tree between me and the horizon.
"I saw right off that I have to change my demeanor: I have to be more forceful; I have to harden myself," said Ms. Williams, a single mother of two grown daughters.
It shows a bust view of a single figure, modelled on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X . Baconapplies forceful, expressive brush strokes, and places the figure with a glass cage like structure, and behind horizontal curtain-like drapery.
But not in China's cities, where three decades of a forceful one-child policy have produced a different ideal: a single child sandwiched between two parents.
