And this is the Stones' success story — they forged an approach and a series of characters, which endure.
Rivalries within Muslim communities have made it more difficult to forge a common approach to imams.
The Obama administration must now decide what can be salvaged and forge a new approach to enforcing the Clean Air Act.
Summoning state executives from across the country here, Mr. Obama sought to forge a bipartisan approach to the nation's economic problems.
It remains to be seen whether they can forge a common approach on the deteriorating economy and the civil war, the two most pressing problems.
Mr. Thomas, the new Ways and Means Committee chairman, said he has already begun consulting with Representative Charles B. Rangel, the committee's ranking Democrat, to try to forge a common approach.
It introduces more ambitious plans to improve action in tackling international crime, and to forge a common approach to asylum and immigration.
The proposals came as the leaders of the euro zone's two largest economies faced mounting pressure to forge a joint approach to a widening economic crisis that has already engulfed Ireland, Greece and Portugal and threatens to pull in Spain and Italy as well.
Such emotionally charged friction between Seoul and Washington has subsided in recent years, as the governments of President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul and President Barack Obama in Washington conclude that they can prevail against the North only if they forge a united approach.
Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, also agrees that across-the-board cuts are problematic, but he had a different take on the source of the problem: "Our job growth would be even stronger if our economy were not hampered by the meat-ax austerity Republicans have insisted upon for the past two years, instead of working with Democrats to forge a balanced approach to deficit reduction".
