Sentence examples for with decisive force from inspiring English sources

But they also noted that their combat missions carried a heavy political component: they are ordered to respond with decisive force, but to do so with a precision that would not agitate the broader Iraqi population.

Why was he unable to make the president and the Pentagon heed the tenets of the "Powell Doctrine" (which held that military commitments must be made with decisive force, a clear objective and popular support, to avoid another Vietnam)?

Other press accounts of the interview with a Portuguese television station quoted him as also saying, "A military solution is never the right solution," an ironic assessment from a man whose own questionable re-election in 2009 prompted huge street demonstrations that were put down with decisive force.

Colin L. Powell, who served as secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ABC's "This Week" that the administration must move in quickly with "decisive force and demonstrate that it's doing everything that it can do".

And he's learned that the rule of thumb is that the Federal government has to move in and take over quickly with "decisive force".

If they must fight there, American generals say, they will choose their targets carefully and try to overwhelm them with such decisive force that the Iraqis' will to fight collapses.

"Such as kick the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait, such as get rid of the government of Panama totally -- not just kick an army out, but get rid of an entire government -- that is what we did in 1989, on 12 hours' notice, with overwhelming, decisive force".

Thatcher responds with swift and decisive force, sending a naval force and in just over 2 months the islands are taken back.

Beside him and Ms. Kent, Jared Matthews as Rakitin seems too young for a role that, with little dancing, requires decisive force.

Tapper points out that the mission seems to violate the Powell Doctrine: which couples decisive force with public support.

And so when something like this clearly is going to get beyond the capacity of whoever caused it, get beyond the capacity of local authorities, I think the federal government has to move in quickly and move in with, to use my favorite expression, decisive force and demonstrate that it's doing everything that it can do".