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Mr Obama had been forceful in telling Mr Abe that he needs to confront his domestic lobby groups on trade, in particular the farmers.
But while Air Force Two was flying back to Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, after a talk with Mr. Obama, called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and went much further than Mr. Biden had, leaving the appearance that Mr. Obama did not think the vice president had been forceful enough.
"It's stupid to think that we would regard them [Stern and Biniaz] as the progressives," says a former negotiator for a small island nation, noting that in Paris the US had been forceful in cutting off the most vulnerable countries on Earth from any form of reparation for damage they will incur from climate change.
With the ouster of Canada's Conservative government — which had been forceful in its criticism of the Kremlin and its support for Ukraine — foreign policy watchers have noted a slight warming in those relations.
It would have been forceful if you had published it when he was still president.
Mr Cohen says such behaviour is alienating China scholars everywhere, many of whom have been forceful advocates of a softer line towards the country.
He has been forceful in demanding that banks buy back dubious loans they sold to Fannie and Freddie during the mortgage mania.
His pair of recent albums, "The Hybrid" and "XXX," have been forceful and eccentric, full of improbably catchy songs brimming with off-kilter bravado and sometimes blistering humor.
"There have been plenty of governors who have been forceful, but the question is how do you do it and get results.
(Mars told me it is currently in talks). And Hollenberg has been forceful in pushing the idea of selling cocoa as a functional food.
In the days since the plane was shot down, the rhetoric coming from Washington, London and Canberra has been forceful and angry, while the rhetoric coming from The Hague has been careful.
