Before Kobe and Shaq, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were the NBA's most forceful tag team.
The president's advisers said his most urgent need was not for policy advice but for a unified, forceful sales team with which to campaign for his plan in Congress.
They now make up a forceful collaborative team, with Pignone contributing clinical expertise and Howard developing the health economics methods for two projects funded by grants they applied for while Pignone was in Australia.
But when Branch returned to the Patriots, he noticed a more drastic shift: Brady had become a more forceful figure on the team — a natural evolution, Belichick said — stepping into the vacuum created when more veteran players departed.
Prior to Fender, few county captains displayed tactical imagination; Fender inspired his teams to play forceful, entertaining cricket which made him and his Surrey team very popular.
"He's still forceful enough inside to force a double team, and I think his statistics will definitely pick up this season".
But João Zilhão, a prehistorian and Neanderthal specialist at the University of Barcelona and a member of the research team, made a forceful defense of the hypothesis in the teleconference.
Still, as the United States prepares to learn its first-round opponents in Thursday's draw, it is without two injured forwards -- Shannon MacMillan, the team's most forceful scorer this year until she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee on May 18; and Heather O'Reilly, a high school phenom who broke the fibula, or small bone, in her left leg on June 14.
Mr. Bush's request is expected to be preceded by a forceful effort by Mr. Obama's team to persuade lawmakers that the new administration will make better use of the bailout money, including new home foreclosure prevention efforts and restrictions on banks that get aid.
And that leaves Ellis with a couple of big holes to fill because Wambach, who retired last month, was not only the most prolific goal-scorer, male or female, in international soccer history, she was also her team's most forceful leader.
