Sentence examples for lack of forceful from inspiring English sources

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Zambia, said Syria's government was "engaged in horrific, revolting attacks against its own people" and found herself forced to defend the lack of forceful international action.

Some Catholics in Philadelphia said Cardinal Rigali's lack of forceful leadership to weed out sex abusers had caused morale problems.

"Plus, Henry Waxman has put together a very serious piece of legislation, and that in my mind justifies their lack of forceful intervention.

In this crisis of identity, some of the criticism is directed at Keller and his team, for what is seen as a lack of forceful leadership, but the publisher has, fairly or not, become a particular source of concern; one Times Company executive who respects Sulzberger's commitment to journalism considers him no more than a business "figurehead".

In the Electro-Forming case, politicians and environmental activists were mystified by the department's lack of forceful action after the 1992 nitric acid spill in Richmond.

When the results were in he called a poor third "a ticket to ride", claiming gamely to have an "excellent" organisation in South Carolina.Even in New Hampshire, however, the sheer volume of campaign events could not compensate for his lack of a forceful message.

The aborted cups resemble the sporocarps of the cyphelloid fungi, but can be distinguished by their orthotrophic spore attachment and the lack of ballistospory (forceful spore discharge).

On the contrary our President and Vice President are so wedded to the oil industry's interests that the enormous increase in oil prices during their tenure can well be ascribed to willful lack of any forceful policies to counter the Saudi extortion.

Critics of the lack of a more forceful Vatican response to the scandals have repeatedly said that part of the problem is that Rome tends to see it as a mostly American issue.

Yet, with the exception of forward Abby Wambach, the convalescent goalkeeper Hope Solo and defender Christie Rampone, the Americans lack the forceful personalities of their pioneering predecessors like Foudy, Mia Hamm, Michelle Akers and Tiffeny Milbrett.

The lanky North Carolina native may lack the forceful personality of other bank executives, like Sanford I. Weill at Citigroup or David H. Komansky at Merrill Lynch, but his task will be one of the most watched on Wall Street: to meld successfully two different companies into the world's third-largest financial institution.