His well informed opinions were always presented forcefully, yet gently, with a twinkle in his eye.
A frequent objection raised against Lewis — presented forcefully by, e.g., Salmon (1988) — is that, in general, the truth value of a de re modal statement is obviously not determined in any way by how things stand among entities that bear absolutely no spatial or temporal connection to the actual world, among entities that bear no intrinsic connection to us.
But there is another view, and Mr. Chen and some of his short-statured workers present it forcefully.
They are presented as forcefully and as systematically as ever, without any major shift from the broad lines he set out in the 1960's.
Mr. Bates's reading was stolid at first, but he quickly got into the details of the piece and presented them forcefully and with an admirable clarity.
His foreign policy prescriptions — withdraw from NATO, abandon our commitments to Taiwan and South Korea and pretty much everywhere else in the world — are not likely to be adopted by the nominee of either major party in 2008, but he presents them forcefully and often persuasively.
Nuclear, offered as a limited option by Obama and presented much more forcefully by McCain is falsely presented as an energy panacea.
And Microsoft was able to present that view forcefully before the committee, thanks to its allies in the Senate.
Mr Menon claims his successors are mostly continuing with the country's previous policy, "but they present it more forcefully".
Starting on 18 April, the United Nations is to hold a special session of its general assembly to address these issues, and Colombia will be there to present its view forcefully, at a crucial juncture in the country's history.
Several cardinals have also emphasized that a pope must be able to reach out to other faiths, improve relations with bishops around the world and forcefully present Catholic teaching.
