Meanwhile, Flood, who advised former president Bill Clinton during his impeachment, has been prepping for months to forcefully exert executive privilege once House Democrats assume the majority.
Though neither the government nor the disparate Syrian opposition seemed willing to condemn the deal in its infancy, the bloodshed and recriminations augured a difficult path ahead for a government that has relied almost exclusively on violence to crush the uprising and an opposition that has yet to forcefully exert itself.
They have also been forcefully exerting the state's monopolistic control over television, radio and the nation's only daily newspaper.
As a conservative who has exerted himself forcefully in Republican politics, many of the policies that his group opposes now are similar to items that he supported as a member of Congress, Jennifer Steinhauer writes.
Interestingly, this merging of pop culture and politics is occurring in a campaign cycle when populism, the vox populi, is exerting itself more forcefully against the establishments of both parties than at any other time in recent memory.
Because of Dubai's severe debt problems, and repeated financial aid from Abu Dhabi to prevent it defaulting, Abu Dhabi is expected to exert its influence more forcefully in federal affairs at the expense of Dubai.
Ms. Headland may intend to establish how forcefully a man (or woman) can exert psychological control over his underlings without much personal contact, but after a while it's like watching "The Devil Wears Prada" with the Anna Wintour character snipped from every scene.
They could exert some public pressure by more forcefully calling upon the Russian government to change its law, or they could go further by threatening to withdraw from the Games.
After the military removed Mr. Morsi from power while promising that it was not "excluding" any party from participating in Egypt's future, the leadership moved forcefully to control the narrative of the takeover by exerting pressure on the news media.
But Obama aides and their allies responded forcefully Thursday, defending the U.S.-Panama trade pact as an instrument that the administration used to exert leverage and bring greater transparency to Panama's shadowy offshore banking system.
But that argument has so far carried little weight in Washington, where, according to analysts and government officials, the Commerce Department is forcefully defending the interests of local industries without the traditional pushback about strategic interests that the State Department has exerted in the past.
