Sentence examples for forceful resolution from inspiring English sources

Their actions included everything from warning law enforcement officers against attempting a forceful resolution of the situation to forming an armed perimeter around the refuge.

But even if county legislators adopt the more forceful resolution calling for the closing of Indian Point, it would be largely symbolic.

"By any fair criteria, this is a very real, a very robust and a very forceful resolution," he said, adding that the department took into consideration the new leadership at UBS and the bank's cooperation with the investigation.

This is the essence of Barrett's method: where we expect a moment of high drama or a forceful resolution, we get a tiny, resonant detail, a shade of melancholy, a small satisfaction.

In addition, Moody's Investors Service, the credit-rating agency, on Monday raised the possibility of mass downgrades of European government debt if a forceful resolution to the escalating crisis was not found.

As a lifelong pacifist he had initially favoured peaceful containment, yet he began to advocate a forceful resolution while many conservatives were still arguing for appeasement.

But the United States and Japan were unable to secure support for the adoption of a more forceful Security Council resolution, which is legally binding.

There had been hope in South Korea that a forceful Security Council resolution, expanding the economic penalties already in place against North Korea, would be completed and presented for a vote before South Korea relinquishes the presidential gavel at the end of Thursday to Russia, the Council president for March.

The Council may vote as soon as Monday on the American draft of a presidential statement, a step less forceful than a resolution, that would tighten existing sanctions by singling out specific North Korean organizations and expanding the list of banned goods related to its nuclear and missile programs.

The moment has a forceful appeal, less a resolution of the play than a blunt depiction of its conflict.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the agreement would have no meaning unless it was backed up by a forceful UN security council resolution.