Along the way, Mr. Summers has forcefully debated the Treasury secretary, his onetime protégé Timothy F. Geithner, over what to do with troubled banks.
In a series of private meetings today, Attorney General Janet Reno and her advisers forcefully debated whether President Clinton should grant a reprieve to Juan Raul Garza, a federal inmate who is scheduled to die next Tuesday by lethal injection.
In my conversations, people who generally have little trouble making up their minds and debating forcefully talked themselves through every side of the question.
You will have spent approximately three years thinking critically, reading broadly, and debating forcefully, and these skills are worthwhile in most everything you do.
The FBI's investigation continued over the course of the campaign, with FBI agents debating how forcefully to push on the probe.
"Why don't you tell these people now that I am the Democratic candidate and that you and I are going to debate forcefully together?" Mr. Forrester tried to restate his proposition, but Mr. Lautenberg jabbed a finger toward him, asking: "Am I the candidate?
Up in smoke The springs that heal The real back yard ReprintsHe went on to win ten other states despite having far less money than Mitt Romney, debating far less forcefully than Newt Gingrich, lacking the committed cadres of Ron Paul and having a skeletal campaign staff.
President forcefully joins debate, saying opposing project near Ground Zero is at odds with American values.
"It was in Dwyer's courtroom," Mr. Hamilton said, "that the constitutional stakes were debated most forcefully".
And the Bush policy would have been debated more forcefully in public, but likely would have remained unchanged anyway.
"What people fail to understand," he added, "is that members of this administration are encouraged by the president to debate their views forcefully.
