The Israeli military says that it is not seeking an escalation of violence in the region, but that it will act forcefully to protect Israeli citizens.
The president needs the flexibility to move quickly and forcefully to protect the country during wartime, even if this entails concealing information from the public and encroaching on civil liberties.
"If the Department of Labor is actually committed to helping low-wage workers in New York, it must act more often, more quickly and more forcefully to protect sweatshop abuses," said Ben Sachs, a lawyer for Make the Road by Walking, a workers rights group in Brooklyn.
Clinton said Gaddafi had left the world no choice but to intervene urgently and forcefully to protect further loss of civilian life.
The Chinese Minister of Public Security, Zhou Yongkang Zhou, referred explicitly to the Lal Masjid militants as terrorists and demanded that Pakistan act more forcefully to protect Chinese nationals working in the country.
Jazz lives, quietly yet forcefully, in unexpected places, protecting these spots keeps the spirit of great musical inspiration alive in far-flung locations, where it might otherwise be paved over.
"The media needs to take a more responsible attitude, and the justice system needs to act quickly and forcefully when the laws protecting a survivor's anonymity are wilfully flouted by the press".
Like Washington, Eisenhower was a battle-hardened veteran who acted decisively and forcefully to "preserve, protect, and defend" the law of the land and the spirit of the Constitution.
"The Supreme Court has forcefully reiterated," he wrote, "that the state's interest in protecting foetal life is important and profound".
But there is a growing risk that intellectual-property laws are now so stringent that they are actually inhibiting innovation, rather than protecting it.The call for a new approach was made forcefully this week in a statement called the Adelphi Charter, issued by a group of prominent legal scholars, artists, scientists and experts from around the world.
