He ardently believed in a centralized government revolving around a forceful, moralistic presidency, with federal agencies regulating giant corporations and corrupt local governments.
Mr. Biden, a six-term senator who has twice sought the presidency, remained forceful and composed against an opponent who proved difficult to attack, given that she is a newcomer and a woman in an arena long dominated by men.
In his year at the White House lectern, Snow has become the public face of the Bush presidency, a forceful yet upbeat defender of an embattled administration whose verbal jousting and television celebrity made him a popular figure in Republican circles, even when his boss was not.
Mr. Clinton, speaking with a little less brio than he did in Charlotte but no less detail, offered a forceful defense of Mr. Obama's presidency, saying that nobody could have been expected to heal the damage from the recession in a single term.
In a speech on Friday in Appleton, Wis., he delivered a lyrical, forceful attack on Mr. Obama's presidency, and on Tuesday he called on Mr. Obama to take responsibility for the nation's problems.
Thursday night the president gave one of the most forceful and compelling domestic policy speeches of his presidency.
During the Bush Presidency, Land emerged as a forceful political advocate.
This careful yet forceful statement is the highlight of his post-presidency.
Turkey's institutions are young and relatively weak: checks and balances on a forceful prime minister (or a putative strong president) are all but non-existent.In the light of all this, an executive presidency partly modelled on France's sounds like a bad idea.
Mr. Bush's speech, delivered in a football stadium under a cloudless sky to long gray lines of somber, white-gloved graduates, was a forceful distillation and refinement of the war themes of the Bush presidency since Sept. 11.
