Trump's whole leadership style involves wielding force and fear via his stranglehold on the GOP base.
"To talk about who wields force, and why, and raise questions about the very nature of power — it seems to me that, in the mind of the thinking viewer, comparisons with the current moment will be unavoidable".
Administration officials say that even though the NATO intervention in Libya, emphasizing airstrikes to protect civilians, cannot be applied uniformly in other hotspots like Syria, the conflict may, in some important ways, become a model for how the United States wields force in other countries where its interests are threatened.
Still, the most compelling plots remain those of the subalterns, who are forced to wield power from below.
It seems more likely Jong Un will be a figurehead behind whom North Korea's powerful factions -- its military, Communist Workers Party, and security forces -- wield power.
These are the people who wield The Force for good.
Viewed through a maze of new buildings, the structure could wield the force of a wonderful surprise.
When a plot is as contorted as this, no single twist seems to wield more force than any other, and you soon slump back and submit to the wash and surge of the action.
While the Juicero press might wield enough force "to lift two Teslas"– the fact that Teslas are the preferred unit of measurement is revealing in itself — that doesn't turn it into anything other than what it is: a gratuitous gadget whose existence is barely even relevant to the fake problem it purports to solve.
Whether that strategy had a chance depended partly on the powers that this as-yet-unnamed person could wield to force the kinds of changes that Detroit, its unions, its suppliers and its creditors have resisted since the Chevrolet Caprice convertible rolled onto car lots in the mid-1970s.
