She is reputed to be a secularist, too, but unlike her forceful father, she remains mostly above the fray.
Viewers are also drawn to "Betty" because of a gang of other rich characters: a forceful father and protective mother; a playboy of a boss, Armando Mendoza, who develops a heart; a nerdy friend who, with Betty, shows the world that frumpy people can win.
The father, forceful and conservative, is close with the commentator Glenn Beck (yet is a sometime donor to Democrats).
His language became more forceful; the Jesuit Father Peter Finlay was described by Yeats as a man of "monstrous discourtesy", and he lamented that, "It is one of the glories of the Church in which I was born that we have put our Bishops in their place in discussions requiring legislation".
A lifetime martial artist, Horiguchi began his Karate training at the age of five after forceful persuasion from his father.
In the longer term, he will need to consolidate his personal power within a divided old guard that was held together by his father's forceful grip.
In many interviews and columns he wrote for Catholic New York, the archdiocesan weekly newspaper, Cardinal O'Connor often recalled his early upbringing: the warmth and seriousness of family prayers and religious observances; the forceful views of his father, "a union man," on the rights of labor; the need for frugality during the hard Depression years.
Both their father and their forceful, exasperating Mama came to the United States as children, and neither has any intention of truly assimilating.
When the interviewer asked her about fear and danger, Malala, speaking in a clear, forceful voice, said that her father, who worked for women's education and fully supported his daughter, had inspired her, and that her mother had told her to speak up for her rights.
Her father, Edward Dickinson, was a forceful and prosperous Whig lawyer who served as treasurer of the college and was elected to one term in Congress.
Instead, retelling the story of St. George, who reputedly killed an evil dragon even after taming it, Father Ptitsyn made a forceful case for punishing the three women whom he described as paid agents of the West.
