Word: forcefullness
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Finally Sweeney decided to become the children's forceful advocate. "Push, push, push," she says. "Nothing ever works according to the system. Someone in the family has to do it." Two years ago, when Cassandra's drug habit became uncontrollable, Sweeney says the social services informed her it had no...
Hull's answer, just as forceful, said the U.S. oil embargo would continue, and demanded that Japan "withdraw all military, naval, air and police forces from China and from Indochina." He handed it to the envoys on Nov. 26, the day Nagumo's fleet left Hitokappu Bay for Pearl Harbor...
Residents were unwilling to support Whitmire's grandiose proposal to build a $1 billion monorail system, and worried about street crime. Caught off balance by two strong opponents, she was unable to respond in a forceful and convincing manner.
What a difference a year makes. In the peace and quiet of his Supreme Court chambers, unassuming Justice David Souter is emerging as a candid, erudite and surprisingly forceful leader. Expect eventual consideration as Chief Justice.
A. One of the proposals we tentatively made about a year or so ago was a pilot program of non-public school choice where the public schools were demonstrably failing some students. In the end, the opposition -- from the teachers' union, school-board associations, school-administrative groups -- was so forceful...