4 Hagnon, knowing that the Athenians had spent more than a thousand talents on the siege and were angry with the Potidaeans because they were the first to go over to the Lacedaemonians, was afraid to raise the siege; consequently he felt compelled to continue it and to compel the soldiers, beyond their strength, to force the issue against the city.
Tuesday, in Las Vegas, President Obama laid out his plan for immigration reform, and he does so at a position of unique, almost unparalleled strength on the issue.
Abortion has been a touchy issue for the candidates, with Mourdock accusing Donnelly of lacking strength on the issue because Donnelly backed the health care reform law.
Trump's challenge for the general election will be finding a way to continue displaying strength on the issue of terrorism having already gone so far to the right.
Annuity guarantees, including optional benefits, are based on the claims-paying ability and financial strength of the issuing insurance company.
These people have tax-free bonds because their net yields are better than taxable fixed-income instruments, also taking into account the financial strength of the issuing entities.
The measures were staunchly opposed by Democrats in Congress, but the Republican party showed its new-found strength by forcing the issue to a vote in the early hours of Saturday morning.
And given that the government's natural areas of political strength are around the issue of border protection (especially asylum-seeker policy) and national security, there is every reason to suspect that the coalition profits when politics skirts xenophobic themes.
Letters to the Manchester Guardian in October of 1909 demonstrate the strength of feeling the issue provoked - some calling for the suffragettes to be left to starve, others likening the hunger strike to suicide, with the attendant moral obligations of the issue.
But arm strength is apparently the issue because his ability to play depends on the nerves in Manning's arm regenerating to a satisfactory performance level.
