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• a  characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical)
  a forceful speaker
  a forceful personality
  forceful measures
  a forceful plan for peace
• s  forceful and definite in expression or action

• But earlier this year neuroscientists complained that the FDA was not being forceful enough in pushing for follow-up studies on another serotonin-type diet pill, Redux, which is .
• The report said: "Politicians who during the election campaign period preached messages of ethnic hatred particularly aimed at the forceful eviction .
• Since 1993, appalled by the then bloody riots between Muslims and Hindus, Azmi, a Muslim, has become a forceful critic of communalism and a tireless crusader to end religious .

• emphatic

• forceless

News & Articles

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• CEO describes Jackson as forceful businessman
  The head of AEG Live LLC told jurors Wednesday that he knew Michael Jackson as a sophisticated, forceful businessman and not the drugged-up performer who's been described throughout an ongoing civil trial ...
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• CEO describes Jackson as forceful businessman
  The head of AEG Live LLC told jurors Wednesday that he knew Michael Jackson as a sophisticated, forceful businessman and not the drugged-up performer who's been described throughout an ongoing civil trial ...
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• AEG Live CEO describes Michael Jackson as forceful businessman
  The head of AEG Live LLC told jurors Wednesday that he knew Michael Jackson as a sophisticated, forceful businessman and not the drugged-up performer who's been described throughout an ongoing civil trial filed over the singer's untimely death.
  June 12, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Timothy Geithner in International Herald Tribune
  The ultimate costs of this crisis will be greater if we do not act with sufficient strength now,Geithner told the Senate Finance Committee. "In a crisis of this magnitude, the most prudent course is the most forceful course."
• Douglas Brinkley in Washington Post
  This is the most forceful denunciation President Carter has ever made about an American president,Brinkley said. "When you call somebody the worst president, that's volatile. Those are fighting words."
• Kevin Pietersen in Times Online
  The Australian way is to come out and be fiercely competitive, dominant in what they do, forceful in their approach and throw a lot of punches early in a Test match,Pietersen said. "It does not matter who they put out. When those guys put...