The acting PM, whose early years were marked by religious activism, tried to calm emotions but was not forceful enough for some.
And after eight days of vacillating and hedging his bets and so effectively supporting Iranian dictator Ali Khamenei against the multitudes rallying in the streets, Obama's much awaited statement was not particularly forceful.
Even at a high volume, it's not a very forceful sort of sound.
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Secondarily, if the administration is so nervous about the implementation of discretionary cuts, why not be more forceful and more descriptive and more specific about entitlements that would stave that off?
The Reds, not looking their forceful best without Steven Gerrard, did create chances and Dirk Kuyt should have done better than sky the ball over the bar after a neat one-two with Crouch.
In the wings of the UN General Assembly, the foreign ministers of the six again agreed on a dual-track strategy: engagement if possible, more forceful measures if not.
So why not give these super boozers a forceful economic nudge to drink less?
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Israel and the U.S. did not confront these calls to arms with forceful responses.
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Kogan may be doing too much forceful marketing in private while not communicating enough with ordinary investors.
The independent directors think not, and said so in a forceful statement on January 4th after Novartis breezily implied in a call with analysts that it would have no trouble imposing its will.
At the end of his journey, seeking closure, he delivers a forceful argument: That it is not foreigners who make the Vietnamese feel shame about their poverty and backwardness, but rather their "lost brothers, " the Viet Kieu.
It is an important nuance to prepare players to put their bodies on the enemy in a skillful yet forceful way, yet teach them not to get so angry when the enemy returns the favor that the teenager overreacts and turns a hip check or high elbow into a straight jab.
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To this day, Egypt's revolutionaries, as well as proponents of forceful US action in Washington, have not forgotten that statement.
It failed in the 1930s because Britain and France were unwilling to take forceful action against Germany and Italy, not to mention an increasingly militaristic Japan.
"He's a very forceful personality, and in academia they may not be used to a bulldozer of a guy, " says a friend of Yau's.
New York (CNN) -- The Obama administration is making a mistake by sending Afghan President Hamid Karzai the forceful and repeated message that it's not happy with his regime, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.
For this reason, it is not merely scientists and activists who call for swift and forceful action -- it is military leaders in my country and others who understand that our common security hangs in the balance.
But the global-warming religionists are losing credibility with the American public precisely because they are too forceful and creative in delivering speculative global warming claims, not because they are too conservative and demure.
Obama has not acted thus far, despite discussions with advisors who urged him to be more forceful with China.
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We will not push Israel under the wheels of a bus, but we will be more forceful toward Israel than we have been under Bush.
While Rumsfeld was forceful and animated in his denunciation of the newspaper article, he did not explicitly rule out any U.S. interest in such a military relationship -- although he described it as unlikely.
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Once a company's product or service becomes commoditized--often the case with big banks, hotel chains and cruise lines--why not take consumers' minds off those annoying product details and grab their attention with some forceful life advice?
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