His loud and forceful style of presentation has been parodied by comedians and other commentators, most notably Dana Carvey of Saturday Night Live.

The rebels dispersed and there was no fighting, as Washington's forceful action proved the new government could protect itself.

" Anthony Boucher praised the novel, saying " Matheson has added a new variant on the Last Man theme ... and has given striking vigor to his invention by a forceful style of storytelling which derives from the best hard-boiled crime novels ".

Transcripts of the meetings show Kissinger arguing for a forceful response and winning out, claiming that the U. S. had to present a strong front to the new Communist regimes in Indochina.

Reaching India shortly after the suppression of the frontier risings of 1897 – 1898, he paid special attention to the independent tribes of the north-west frontier, inaugurated a new province called the North West Frontier Province, and pursued a policy of forceful control mingled with conciliation.

Goebbels and some others believed that the forceful works of such artists as Emil Nolde, Ernst Barlach and Erich Heckel exemplified the Nordic spirit ; as Goebbels explained, " We National Socialists are not unmodern ; we are the carrier of a new modernity, not only in politics and in social matters, but also in art and intellectual matters.

Van Beek postulated that Griaule engaged in such leading and forceful questioning of his Dogon sources that new myths were created in the process by confabulation, writing that " though they do speak about sigu tolo Griaule claimed was Sirius they disagree completely with each other as to which star is meant ; for some it is an invisible star that should rise to announce the sigu, for another it is Venus that, through a different position, appears as sigu tolo.

When their discontent could not be contained, forceful black leaders followed what was becoming an American habit — they formed new denominations.

The war also profoundly affected Few's attitude toward the political future of the new nation, transforming the rugged frontier individualist into a forceful exponent of a permanent union of the states.

After Brooklyn owner Dan Topping withdrew his team from the league to join the new All-America Football Conference, the remaining owners agreed not to renew Layden's contract, feeling that he was too much of a gentleman and not forceful enough.

Under his forceful leadership, and based on his defining contributions, at the beginning of 1583, the Accademia took on a new form, directing itself definitively to the end that the academicians now identified: to demonstrate and to conserve the beauty of the Florentine vulgar tongue, modelled upon the authors of the Trecento.

A new forceful commander, Lieutenant General Nobuo Tanaka, took command of the 33rd Division on 22 May, and ordered repeated attacks which reduced many of his division's battalions to mere handfuls of men.

In the Second Test against the West Indies at Lords England collapsed to 61-5, but the new skipper made a forceful 113 out of the last 155 runs and became a hero.

The other new track, " V Centenario ," is an assault on colonialism that's almost as forceful.

Now more forceful and demanding, Penelope quickly corners the terrified Pepé, who, after smelling her new stench, wants nothing more than to escape the amorous female cat.

Strong became openly associated with the city's labor-owned daily newspaper, The Union Record, writing forceful pro-labor articles and promoting the new Soviet government.

In the process leading up to the adoption of the new 1999 Venezuelan Constitution, anti-discrimination provisions were proposed, however due to forceful opposition from the Catholic Church, they were dropped from the final draft.

The great Adolphe Nourrit, having proved himself unable to conform to the new singing and taste trend, having been overcome by Duprez at the Opéra through a forceful performance of Arnold ’ s role in William Tell, which he himself had created, according to Rossini ’ s expectations, by hautes-contre ’ s ancient graceful singing, ended his days in despair in Naples where he had resumed his studies with Donizetti, falling headlong from the window of a hotel ’ s room.

Spike further describes how, mere months later, he became far more assertive, already using his new name " Spike ," speaking in a more forceful, working class accent, and preying upon innocents not for sustenance but for fun, calling too much attention to the group as far as Angelus was concerned.

Annabeth and Maureen also face a new boss, Chief Deputy Prosecutor James Conlon ( David James Elliott ), who has just arrived from New York, and whose methods appear to the two prosecutors to be too forceful and sometimes unethical.

It tells the story of five indigenous people who dealt with the issues for forceful removal by the Australian government.

According to the AP, she has been " the Senate's most forceful and authoritative voice for veterans ' issues " for her work on property tax exemptions for disabled veterans, and her support of Virginia's Wounded Warriors Program.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

The most common, though also most harmless case was various irritating skin rashes, which were called älvablåst ( elven blow ) and could be cured by a forceful counter-blow ( a handy pair of bellows was most useful for this purpose ).

He was competent and forceful, and many considered him a sterling candidate for the presidency, despite his elitist background.

In 1788, 34 years after he had retired from the slave trade, Newton broke a long silence on the subject with the publication of a forceful pamphlet " Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade ", in which he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle Passage, and apologized for " a confession, which ... comes too late ...

In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly embarrassing situation when his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos offering to open talks on returning the former German colonies, in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe.

By whatever name, advocates had two strong beliefs: opposition to the idea of forceful sexual activity in a relationship and advocacy for a woman to use her body in any way that she pleases.

Moreover, the League's advocacy of disarmament for Britain, France, and its other members, while at the same time advocating collective security, meant that the League was depriving itself of the only forceful means by which it could uphold its authority.

They also provided a forceful voice for independent critics of contemporary events.

This type of language is used, according to E. Segal, for “ the forceful inversion, the reduction of the master to an abject position of supplication … the master-as-suppliant is thus an extremely important feature of the Plautine comic finale .” The imperative mood is therefore used in the complete role-reversal of the normal relationship between slave and master, and “ those who enjoy authority and respect in the ordinary Roman world are unseated, ridiculed, while the lowliest members of society mount to their pedestals … the humble are in face exalted ”.

Peine forte et dure ( Law French for " hard and forceful punishment ") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead (" stood mute ") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe, fatal suffocation would occur.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s Vernadsky played an early advisory role in the Soviet atomic bomb project, as one of the most forceful voices arguing for the exploitation of nuclear power, the surveying of Soviet uranium sources, and having nuclear fission research conducted at his Radium Institute.

The jaws, thought by Fowler and colleagues to be comparatively weak, were not optimised for eating prey alive nor for quick, forceful dispatch of the prey.

Debs, a forceful World War I antiwar activist, had been convicted under sedition charges brought by the Wilson administration for his opposition to the draft during World War I.

After Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu confiscated 20, 000 cases of British-owned opium in 1839, Jardine arrived in London in September, and pressed Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston for a forceful response.

If he was less effective than his father in containing the Norman lords ' propensity for rebellion and violence, through charisma, or political skills, he was forceful in overcoming the consequences.

As a lifelong pacifist he had initially favoured peaceful containment, yet he began to advocate a forceful resolution while many conservatives were still arguing for appeasement.

On 3 April, Powell said in the Commons that the time for inquests on the government's failure to protect the Falkland Islands would come later and that although it was right to put the issue before the United Nations, Britain should not wait upon that organisation to deliberate but use forceful action now.

Lawrence was a forceful advocate of " Big Science " with its requirements for big machines and big money.

The forceful manner of Prussian minister Baron von Stein, not the government administered by Russian Prince Repnin until November 1814 or the subsequent Prussian occupying force that lasted to June 1815, were responsible for the low morale in Saxony at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

This " forceful maternal action ," as historian Pauline Croft describes it, obliged James to climb down at last, though he reproved Anne for " froward womanly apprehensions " and described her behaviour in a letter to Mar as " wilfulness.

Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful and intense style.