The organization's president, Benjamin T. Jealous, said afterward that the address "was the most forthright speech on the racial disparities still plaguing our nation" Mr. Obama has given since moving into the White House.
Mr. Giuliani's aides said yesterday that many of the mayor's advisers had been calling on him during the last week to tone down his words and perhaps even give a forthright public address on community police relations in the city.
In a typically forthright keynote address early this week at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum, Clarium Capital's Peter Thiel argued that our current technological progress is "decelerating and stalled out".
Airlines, he said, need to be more forthright in addressing tensions between customers and employees over carry-on bags.
Phil Angelides, the state treasurer and a Democrat, said "Democrats were not forthright in addressing the genuine problems of the business climate," he said.
That these governments have been able to tackle the squeamish issue of prostitution is to their credit, although they have been less forthright in addressing the equally sensitive question of injecting drug use.
SEC Chair Mary Jo White came to the heart of Silicon Valley to deliver a speech at Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance on March 31 , 2016 which touched on a variety of topics but was rather forthright in addressing startup valuations.
In a rather confident and forthright manner, Sen. Obama addressed the controversy surrounding his former pastor, then moved on to discuss more pressing issues at hand -- the gas tax, the economy, and relations with Iran.
The Ramble is host to other subcultures as well, a situation the book addresses with forthright delicacy.
It is a worthy goal -- one ordered up by Congress -- but the creation of a highly intrusive federal surveillance program raises serious privacy and due process concerns, which the government needs to address in a forthright manner.
