But Mr. Paterson made it clear that he would be a more aggressive, vocal spokesman for his party's views.
Signaling that he will take no chances in his bid for a third term, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has hired a former antagonist, Howard Wolfson, the aggressive Democratic spokesman and longtime adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton, to serve as the public face of his campaign.
"Statements of this kind and new promises to Tbilisi of fast NATO membership only strengthen the dangerous feeling of impunity of the Saakashvili regime and encourage its aggressive ambitions," a spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, said.
"The police were not too aggressive," said Mr. Khanal, the Home Ministry spokesman.
"We needed a strategy and an organization to take a more aggressive approach," said Todd Terrell, a spokesman for Southern.
Senator John McCain of Arizona, who is his party's most prominent spokesman for an aggressive foreign policy, recently dismissed Mr. Paul and those who agree with him as "wacko birds".
However, as Oreo recuperated from her injuries under the care of the A.S.P.C.A., she was increasingly viewed as a danger — difficult to control and "unpredictably aggressive," according to an organization spokesman.
This, CERN admits, is an "aggressive schedule" in the words of spokesman James Gillies.
"This reflects the dire fiscal circumstances the city faces, the devastating impact of increasing pension costs and the desperate need for aggressive reforms," said Marc La Vorgna, a mayoral spokesman.
The failure in June 2000 led General Electric to develop what a spokesman, Rick Kennedy, called "an aggressive inspection program," which the F.A.A. later made mandatory.
