President Trump delivered a forceful and fact-challenged televised plea to the nation Tuesday night for his long-promised border wall, declaring "a growing humanitarian and security crisis" at the southern border and blaming congressional Democrats for the partial government shutdown that he helped instigate three weeks ago.
Everyone immersed in the joys of the English language – school teachers, journalists, poets, diarists and doodlers – knows that many rules of style are a matter of personal choice (Strunk happened to loathe "forceful" and "the fact that") and even that some established rules of grammar are open to challenge.
In 2007, just as British and American pronouncements about their successes – and the readiness of Iraqi security forces – were becoming more forceful, the British were in fact retreating into smaller and smaller bases.
"It looked like I could have clipped it from my own child's head yesterday, and it was a very forceful reminder of the fact that these historical figures we write about... are not fictional creations but real people".
His active and forceful mind never let a fact go unrecorded, though his written output never matched his prodigious notes.
But the inference, once made (and it is no trick at all to make it), puts us in direct and forceful contact with an uncontroversial fact.
That was in fact the first forceful conversion in the country after the Christianization of Bulgaria five centuries earlier.
Margaret Gilbert's On Social Facts (1989) made a forceful case for the existence of "plural subjects", a crucial metaphysical thesis that provides one possible foundation for group-oriented, or collective, social epistemology.
He's so forceful and believable as Joe, in fact, that "All About the Andersons" somewhat loses its direction as a vehicle for Mr. Anderson, who created the show and based it on his own life.
Mr. McCain, who met European leaders on a Congressional fact-finding tour, responded with forceful criticism of Mr. Obama's plan to remove combat troops from Iraq.
