So powerful people tend to be, not surprisingly, more assertive and more confident, more optimistic.

It is time for the Assembly to be more assertive within the mandate accorded it by the Charter.

On the one hand, it must protect itself against the geopolitical threat posed by a newly assertive and adventurous Russia. On the other, it must seek to replace the rule of force with the rule of law, and geopolitics with the pursuit of democracy, open society, and international cooperation.

Thailand's experience has taught us that, ultimately, developing nations can and should become equal and assertive partners in our own development.

The absence of laws mandating force to block separatist activity has never stopped Chinese authorities from brutally persecuting individuals and groups who have called for an independent Tibet or Xinjiang. There is thus little reason to believe that a more explicitly assertive stance is necessary for dealing with the splittist government in Taipei.

More significant, Japan s leaders are now openly debating ways to transform the country s post World War II pacifism into a much more assertive nationalism. In fact, in August, the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force unveiled the helicopter destroyer Izumo, whose structure and capabilities resemble those of an aircraft carrier, with possible offensive applications.

Thus, China s rulers acted in character last December, when they cracked down on news organizations that were getting a bit too assertive.

Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.

This assertive and high profile operation immediately established the visibility and authority of EUFOR and made a positive early impact both nationally and internationally.

In implementing the unitary United Nations concept, Member States would need to be far more assertive in guiding and setting the policy agenda of agencies.

Russia is not becoming assertive, aggressive, or imperial, as many observers claim. We are only claiming what is rightfully ours a place in the front row of international relations.

This prospect is hardly encouraging. If abuses and repression in the provinces continue no matter how attentive the central government, or how assertive the press might have become, what then?

It's an economic force it's a technical force.

This is not about overwhelming force, but proportional force.

They realized that using force against force doesn't work.

Three cases before the country s increasingly assertive Supreme Court promise to take Pakistan from the phase of demilitarization to a system in which meaningful checks can be exercised on those who wield power. One case is an attempt to force Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani s administration to reopen proceedings in a Swiss court that were examining charges of money laundering and misuse of public funds by President Asif Ali Zardari.

A rising China, a resurgent Japan, an assertive Russia, and an anachronistic North Korea have added new complexities and uncertainties to the region. The latter s pursuit of nuclear arms is particularly worrying.

This four year strategy will result in the provision of much needed services (Crisis Management, Case Management, Assertive Community Treatment Teams and Early Intervention) to an additional 78,000 people by 2007 2008.

Others, however, see a Chinese strategy that is confused, contradictory, and paralyzed by competing bureaucratic interests. They point to the negative results of China s more assertive policies since the economic crisis of 2008.

You've got to build this force. You've got to seed this force.

That's what keeps the Sys Admin Force from being a pussy force.

Force majeure

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Democracy remains a worthy and widespread goal, but it is important to distinguish the goal from the means used to attain it. There is a difference between assertive promotion and more gentle support of democratization.

A second obstacle to sustained recovery is the eurozone s bad neighborhood. Russia is becoming more assertive and aggressive in Ukraine, the Baltics, and even the Balkans (while sanctions against Russia have hurt many European economies).

So long as the EU continues to sway between integration and containment, it will continue to appear to the Kremlin as weak and directionless. That, in turn, will merely encourage Russia to become even more assertive.

The Chinese urge is to break from the confines of their country s history, and thus China s own geography. An assertive and relatively stable China, it seems, must expand, lest pent up internal pressures tear it apart.

An Internal Security Force includes both a police force and an information gathering department.

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Use more force?

Labor Force Estimates

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If Sunnis triumph there, they may become more assertive in countries that have large Shia populations. It is not often recognized that Pakistan has the world s second largest Shia population, after Iran, with roughly 50 million adherents.

This special provision will enter into force pending the entry into force of the CTBT.

Likewise, we use force to indicate not only physical force, as in, Rose forced the door to open, but also interpersonal force, but by issuing a threat.

The operative words in section are assault or criminal force, which in separate definitions given in the Code quite clearly signify overt force or threat of force.

That Sys Admin force is the force that never comes home, does most of your work.

And it gave a very beautiful description of the strong force and of the weak force.

Only brute force remained.

There's no force feeding.