If Mr. Putin allows the bill to go forward, it will be the most forceful anti-American action of his new term, undoing a bilateral agreement on international adoptions that was ratified just this year and crushing the aspirations of thousands of Americans hoping to adopt Russian orphans.
He singles out the forceful Hillary Clinton and James Jones, a respected general who will be the next national security adviser.All this is encouraging.
The densest concentration of sand or dust bounces close to the ground, so the storm will be less forceful at the top of a hill.
In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, Mr Pickles said the programme will be "more forceful in language, a little less understanding".
After all, the president's team has insisted that the Pacific pivot will be a forceful reassertion of American power in a strategic part of the world and a deliberate reassurance to our allies that we have their backs vis-à-vis China.
There will be a forceful denunciation of why things shouldn't be the way they are and a passionate argument for how they could be better, and then, perhaps, a reconciliation at the end.
It's to be expected from the writer of the story "Gertrude Talks Back" that Miranda will be a forceful presence; Felix notes fondly that Prospero's daughter must have been a wild thing, what with her childhood spent running barefoot around the island.
"The next secretary of state must be someone who views the world with moral clarity, is free of potential conflicts of interest, has a clear sense of America's interests, and will be a forceful advocate for America's foreign policy goals to the president, within the administration, and on the world stage," he said.
"The next secretary of state must be someone who views the world with moral clarity, is free of potential conflicts of interest, has a clear sense of America's interests, and will be a forceful advocate for America's foreign policy goals to the president, within the administration, and on the world stage," Rubio said.
Putin's close relationship with Anatoly Chubais, Yeltsin's former first deputy prime minister and architect of the privatization program, means that Putin will be less forceful in reversing criminal privatizations than he should be.
