Everywhere I travel, from North Africa to Europe to Asia, dark-skinned people approach me and, usually gently but sometimes aggressively, establish a bond.
Mr. Espada has used the tactic most aggressively, having established ties with candidates in all but one of the nine City Council districts in the Bronx.
Kenneth M. Mead, the Transportation Department's inspector general, defended the rules, saying the department had worked aggressively to establish a strong safety program.
She has been working aggressively to establish a statewide identity since 2009, when Gov. David A. Paterson appointed her to the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who left to become secretary of state.
But as DC has moved more aggressively to establish its characters as exploitable properties for its parent company, Time Warner, it has shifted some of its Vertigo characters back to its central DC universe.
The deglamorization that doctors have suffered with the rise of H.M.O.'s in American life has had its corrective on television, where medical dramas seem to labor ever more aggressively to establish the physician's genius.
Chinese publishers' overseas traffic typically comes mostly from Southeast Asia, but they are now moving aggressively to establish themselves in the U.S. and European markets.
In the past 2 years, countries in the West, as well as the E.U., Japan, and Australia, have moved aggressively to establish new scientific exchange agreements with India, or to update their existing arrangements.
