Sentence examples for be a more forceful from inspiring English sources

Some would love for the president to be a more forceful advocate for statehood.

Indeed, last month in Beirut, the army was left without the equipment that would have enabled it to be a more forceful mediator in the street battles involving Hezbollah and its rivals.

In any event, the duo may never be as crucial to Angela Merkel's government as Plisch and Plum were in their day, if only because Ms Merkel seems to be a more forceful chancellor than Kurt Georg Kiesinger was in the 1960s.

He had been playing the role of a front man for the old Thai establishment representing the street-level id of the civil service, the army, the judiciary and the monarchy and he has failed to deliver.In this scenario, today's move might then be a more forceful bid to dislodge the government and appoint a new one with the aim of rewriting rules of the game.

With luck, his experience in the last six years will prompt him to be a more forceful advocate in the future.

It would be easier if it were a more forceful comedy.

"The tempo doesn't fluctuate," he said of today's orchestras, "and there's a more forceful bowing style.

Mimi Parker, who plays drums, is a more forceful and prominent singer here than in the past, especially on "Holy Ghost" and the striking album closer, "To Our Knees".

With expectations low ahead of a summit of European leaders in Brussels on Wednesday evening, Mrs. Merkel's speech was a more forceful defense of the euro ideal than has been typical of her in the past.

In Bay's nearly two seasons in New York, he has not come close to resembling the power hitter he was in Pittsburgh and in Boston, although he has been a more forceful presence lately.

By contrast, Somali pirates tend to strike on the high seas, where the combination of armed guards and other onboard security measures and the presence of international navies is a more forceful deterrent.