Standing in front of a set designed to replicate the Lincoln Memorial, before which Martin Luther King stood 45 years ago to deliver his "I have a dream" speech, Barack Obama forcefully, directly and passionately set forth his practical vision for a new America.
"What it would do is force online platforms to police their users' speech more forcefully than ever before, silencing legitimate voices in the process".
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, blunt and sharp-tongued, will cap the evening with a 30-minute speech intended to forcefully make the case that the president's policies have failed America.
But in hindsight, some said he should have repudiated Bob Jones's policies in his speech, or moved forcefully within a day or two to put out a letter like the one he sent to Cardinal O'Connor.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a vocal supporter of Israel but also a frequent advocate of free speech, on Wednesday forcefully defended Brooklyn College's decision to co-sponsor a panel discussion about a movement that calls for economic boycotts and sanctions against Israel.
And if she expresses them forcefully in speech after speech, she can hardly cry foul when not everyone likes what she says.
At one point in her speech Tuesday, Ms. Gillard said forcefully that "my father did not die of shame".
Frederick Douglass made the point forcefully in a speech on July 4, 1862 titled "The Slaveholders' Rebellion," but so did plenty of others who would not have seen eye to eye with Douglass before the war.
Barack Obama said more about climate change in his inauguration speech – and expressed it more forcefully – than he did at any point in the 2012 election campaign and during much of his first term.
Well known as an eloquent lawyer, he pleaded for the University of Paris against the Jesuits in 1594 and presented his case so forcefully that his speech on this occasion has been called "the original sin of the Arnaulds," as if it were the first cause of the Jesuits' animosity against the family.
The former secretary of defence, Robert Gates, made this point very forcefully in a speech in Brussels in June 2011.But thanks to the escalating crisis in Ukraine, the White House has come to realise that an aggressive Russian foreign policy poses a genuine security threat to NATO's eastern fringes.
