True, when he was majority leader he made aggressive use of rules that prevented Republicans from offering amendments to bills.
If that failed, he could make aggressive use of his executive powers — generating cycles of alienation that would, over time, undermine the very ideal of democracy.
By contrast, Cruz had a highly sophisticated ground game that had recruited caucus captains and volunteers across the state and made aggressive use of data capture on Facebook, using detailed psychological profiling techniques to sway voters.
At the Department of Education, Catherine E. Lhamon, 44, a former civil rights litigator who runs the agency's Office of Civil Rights — and has made aggressive use of a federal nondiscrimination law known as Title IX — was taking the lead.
On the left, grass-roots Democrats have made aggressive use of online organizing and fund-raising techniques to decentralize their own party and break the monopoly the wealthy once had on political cash.
The government's pursuit of financial fraud had so far come up empty, and Kaufman wanted to confirm that the department was on the case, ready to make aggressive use of the money from the new bill.
In addition to influencing policy at the White House, Parag Mehta makes aggressive use of social media: his Facebook feed is filled with images of him and his longtime boyfriend Vaibhav Jain.
Union leaders acknowledge that they make aggressive use of the environmental laws, but say they do it out of genuine concern for the sustainability of California's power industry, not just as a negotiating tactic.
As president, Mr. Obama has made aggressive use of the White House as a platform to promote cultural events, hosting concerts featuring artists as varied as Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett and, just last week, the bluegrass-country star Alison Krauss.
The ruling came in one of three cases against Judge Garzón, the country's most prominent but also contentious judicial personalities, who has made aggressive use of the doctrine of universal jurisdiction for grave human rights crimes.
