Hong Kong health officials, fearing that the virus was on the verge of becoming extremely contagious, acted forcefully to build a moat around the outbreak: during the last week of December, they destroyed every chicken in the city.
The United States has lost influence within the United Nations because of years of ambivalence towards the organization and should re-engage it forcefully to build a coalition of democratic nations, says a report to be issued on Thursday by a bipartisan task force.
Built mortgage lender Ameriquest by forcefully selling mortgages to homeowners unable to get traditional bank loans; subprime giant fell apart well before this year's lending meltdown.
Yet, the deeper he delved, the more forcefully a depressing truth emerged: that a fortress of legislation had been built around the stock exchanges and powerful traders (mostly banks and hedge funds) by lobbyists and politicians.
As rallying cries go, "Save the Barn!" might not prick the conscience as forcefully as, say, "Save the Manatee!" The barn is inanimate, prosaic, a foursquare structure built for work.
The Israeli action reflected suspicion of Palestinian promises to eventually protect Israelis, as well as a confidence, built over two years of harsh Israeli reprisals, raids and pre-emptive pinpoint killings, that the Bush administration would not forcefully object.
It was still an ally of the United States, which had once built a canal across its territory, controlled its politics for years, and in 1989 sent in the U.S. military to forcefully sort out those politics once again.
In 1935, however, Adolf Hitler's Germany repudiated the treaty and forcefully negotiated the right to build U-boats.
The "Who Counts?" series in The Lancet argued forcefully for the need to build and strengthen civil registration and health information systems globally [ 11- 14].
A better strategy might be to articulate — forcefully — the nature of the problem and build a political consensus that would ultimately lead to long-delayed changes to American society.
