His businesslike, forceful methods won him popular attention, and the Whig-controlled legislature in 1851 elected him to the U.S. Senate.
Under General Hood's command, and after consultations with senior Pentagon officials, American guards at Guantánamo Bay used forceful methods in dealing during 2006 with detainees who engaged in hunger strikes.
Erdoğan said the forceful methods used by Turkish riot police to quell protests against the demolition of an Istanbul park were little different from those used previously in the US and UK.
Even as his riot police were on the attack, Yanukovych released a statement urging them to "regulate the conflict in a peaceful way" and saying he was against "bloodshed and forceful methods".
"Sometimes it's quite aggressive, but we don't use physically forceful methods, no stress positions, and we don't do sleep deprivation, which we define as more than sixteen hours a day," Miller says.
Just because the US, Japan and South Korea have failed, so far, to modify North Korea's threatening behaviour and have eschewed more forceful methods does not mean they will continue to do so indefinitely.
Although Giuliani was known for using aggressive tactics when he was the U.S. Attorney, he could well end up querying the forceful methods used against Cohen by the investigators working for his successor.
Skirmishes with suspicious tribespeople on the lakeshore, which resulted in a number of casualties, gave rise in England to criticism of this new kind of traveler with his journalist's outlook and forceful methods.
If there is an art to landing a cushy post-dictatorial sinecure, Mr. Aristide seems to have mastered only part of it in his dozen years as Haiti's president -- which began with his election but ended with his using increasingly forceful methods of rule.
