IOWA CITY, Nov. 5 — A few minutes before John Edwards delivered a forceful closing argument to the voters who will help determine the fate of his presidential ambitions, he called upon a gentleman seated near a window in the library in downtown Charles City.
Baltimore police officer William Porter could have prevented the death of Freddie Gray in police custody with a few simple steps but failed to do so, prosecutors argued in a forceful closing argument Monday.
Danny Sullivan, another former newspaper guy now steeped in the Web, deconstructed Mr. Thompson's remarks and asked him, in rather forceful terms, to close his piehole.
That's why, as Barack Obama makes his latest impassioned and forceful plea to close it once and for all, it is shameful that he is leaving in place the practices that enabled it to flourish in the first place.
Andromaque is more skillfully crafted than Racine's previous efforts: its exposition is a model of clarity and concision; the interplay of love, hate, and indifference is subtly yet compellingly arranged; the rhetoric is forceful but close to normal speech; and the innovative use of the offstage to direct the audience's attention beyond the visual to the imaginary is remarkable.
Though less polished than the district attorney, public defender Dan King used his closing arguments to make a forceful case that Holmes was not guilty by reason of insanity.
Mr. Obama delivered a clear, forceful, partisan speech whose substance stood in tension with his closing invocation of One America.
WASHINGTON — Jabbing his finger at the lectern, his voice forceful, his words brimming with indignation, John Kerry laid out the case like the prosecutor he once was, making a closing argument to a skeptical jury.
They closed with a forceful line: "Any reports that Foxconn confirmed that it is preparing to produce a specific product for any customer are not accurate".
But there are repeated rumours of friction between the tough Mr Thursfield and the equally forceful Mr Padilla.After closing surplus plants, such as the assembly line at Dagenham in Britain, Ford Europe is refitting its remaining four big European factories.
If President Obama had mustered such forceful arguments when he tried to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, he might have had his way.
