He'd said this to them in emphatic terms at a meeting the day before, explaining that he saw this as a chance to lead.
In 1961 the Freedom Riders rolled through the region, criticized sharply by the Kennedy administration as well as the Southern politicians, denounced in emphatic terms by The New York Times, and three-quarters of Americans disapproved".
After the Mumbai attacks Singh stated in emphatic terms that there can be no negotiations with terrorists; then, kowtowing to pressure from Tamil Nadu politicians, he agreed to send his Foreign Minister to Colombo to push the Sri Lankan government to do exactly that.
Peter Conrad concluded an interview with Updike in late 2008 in these emphatic terms: "He has done more to enrich us than all of Wall Street's bankers and brokers, and his books, unlike the papery profits of the Stock Exchange, will not lose their value".
Re "For Canseco and McGwire, Little Brotherly Love" (Feb. 13): Nobody knows more about Jose Canseco's Oakland team than the manager, Tony La Russa, whose words scorch Canseco in clear, emphatic terms.
In a recent Guardian interview Clegg again cited the call with the governor but in less emphatic terms saying: "It is unbelievably important when you are facing a fiscal firestorm like this that you assert sovereignty and control over the situation, that you show very quickly that you are going to deal with it on your own terms.
As for journalistic bias, it certainly didn't exist in the wake of the first presidential debate, when we reporters and pundits embraced Romney's surge, vied to describe it in ever-more emphatic terms and revealed that we're more invested in suspense than in any ideology.
Mr Fallon's belief that there is indeed a potential threat to Nato territory - in particular the Baltic Republics - is widely shared; hence Nato's desire to underline in the most emphatic terms that its security guarantees to its members will be honoured in full.
Second, though Obama endorsed the public option in the most emphatic terms we've heard from him, he also made it clear that he wasn't going to let it stand in the way of a deal.
At today's hearing, Democrats told Mr. Thompson, in the most emphatic terms, that it would be a waste of time and energy for Mr. Bush to pursue his plan to subsidize state drug assistance programs for low-income elderly people.
I wrote poems about the universe, such as one in which the inhabitants of other planets "Look up to the sky and say / 'The Earth twinkles clearly tonight.' " Miss Kay predicted my future as a writer in the most emphatic terms.
