"forceful means" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to methods or actions that use a significant amount of power, energy, or strength. Example: In order to assert their dominance, the dictator resorted to forceful means such as censorship, intimidation, and brutality.
The main reason for the illegitimacy of modern states is that they employ forceful means in cases where such force is impermissible.
Assimilation, it was believed, must be achieved by the deliberate, and sometimes forceful, means of earlier nativist movements.
For starters, we need more routine and forceful means of policing the world's nuclear materials and, more challenging still, its biotechnology infrastructure.
The paintings feature geometric planes of colour suspended in infinite white space, conveying dynamic spatial relations by minimal but forceful means.
He now argues — and, in this respect, "America at the Crossroads" announces a new dimension in his thinking — that economic development and the creation of social capital, "soft power," are the proper tools of foreign policy, and that regime change by forceful means is a discredited option.
Moreover, the League's advocacy of disarmament for Britain, France, and its other members, while at the same time advocating collective security, meant that the League was depriving itself of the only forceful means by which it could uphold its authority.
In The Mask, Carrey is Stanley Ipkiss, a mild-mannered nice guy prone to being stepped on and manipulated by more forceful, "meaner" characters.
Traditionally, imminence is a temporal requirement that justifies the use of force only where the threat is inevitable beyond a reasonable doubt and no other non-forceful means are available to avert it.
Whether exposing guys who don't pay child support or advising on how to deal with forceful men on No Means No, there are heady injections of social commentary throughout.
Aggression means "forceful attack," from the Latin word for attack; in modern usage, the noun has the connotation of an unprovoked attack.
That could mean forceful action inside countries where problems are developing, a policy Secretary General Kofi Annan has endorsed as a last resort.
