forceful

Infinitive complement

• get: Now this act alone, may be forceful enough to get a response, but what if it isnt?

Modifies a noun

• personality: Someone with a forceful personality might persuade others that an unusual or unexpected light is really a flying saucer.
• reminder: Baroness Kennedy's forceful reminder that " Markets are not moral!
• presence: Now an established pro, he stalked the table, a forceful, overpowering presence.
• argument: It might take all your courage to stand up to someone putting up a forceful argument.
• manner: This pages presents the case against the car in a well argued and forceful manner.
• intervention: Where prevention fails, can we agree on criteria for intervention - and forceful intervention if necessary?

Modifying Another Word

• equally: The Alliance needs to be equally forceful in resisting this invasion into childhood.
• quite: Obviously they felt that ' sorry, you're not our cup of tea ' wasnt quite forceful enough.
• particularly: That is something he has always been particularly forceful about.
• too: Beware of upsetting editors by being too forceful or demanding.
• very: She was speaking specifically to death by suicide, with a very forceful message.
• so: She is so forceful now and puts in so much effort.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Usually a series, becoming more forceful the longer the overdue account remains unpaid.