It was a show of force, she believed, meant to intimidate her own son.
Regardless, it was a show of force that people in Lebanon have not forgotten.
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Maybe because Barack Obama did not want to offend Muslim sensibilities by such a show of force.
On Thursday afternoon, police vehicles lined Times Square in a show of force, with officers standing shoulder to shoulder.
Perhaps a show of force at the start of the Bosnian and Croatian wars could have nipped the conflicts in the bud.
Evening commuters passed through Pennsylvania Station under the watch of officers with bomb-sniffing dogs, a show of force that offered comfort to some commuters.
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They requested a show of force by an F-15 fighter jet and AC-130 gunship, which launched warning flares toward the positions high above the commandos, the report concludes.
But in a show of force, police cruisers with blinking red lights were lined up in the middle of Times Square on Thursday afternoon, and uniformed officers stood shoulder to shoulder.
Other administration officials argued in favor of a strong show of force, according to senior defense officials.
In addition to its stop in the Caribbean, it has been speculated that the Russian fleet could stop in Syria as part of a broader show of force in the Mediterranean.
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That night, however, Hogan reported that the U.S. Ambassador and the Afghan Minister of the Interior had decided that the team should not leave Uruzgan without a final show of force.
But a show of military force in the region could put the kidnappers under further pressure.
Obama and his allies did not want a show of American force in the country that would offend Muslim sensibilities.
"Some officials said the U.S. could also have sent aircraft to the scene as a 'show of force' to scare off the attackers, " the Journal reported, noting that there's a U.S. air base just 450 miles away in Sicily.
It was a plugged-in show of force that would have been beyond comprehension a decade ago.
But the real problem is that the soon-to-commence exercise was not a quickly executed show of force.
Mr Sarkozy sees a chance to show he is a man of action, and he will find it easier to force through domestic reform if he can show he is not in thrall to all that Anglo-Saxon free-market ideology.
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In theory, such flare-ups should offer the European Union a chance to show some military mettle for all its talk of having a rapid-reaction force of its own, but in practice the Macedonian crisis comes when Europeans are still wholly unready for reaction.
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Instead their strategy was to force Oscar Pistorius to show his hand, giving a full account of his version of events in order to counter the premeditated murder charge raised at the bail hearing.
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"In an immense show of force, police have shown their presence, " said Kanene Holder, a spokeswoman for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
And a number of exhibitors who sat last year's show out, such as GE Appliances, were back in force.
Figures from Hampshire Police show the force took an average of five months to process applications last year and there was a backlog of 13, 000 licences.
Was not a primary lesson of the past, from Prussia to Weimar and the Third Reich, that the army must never show force inside Germany?
Do you as a police officer, Ronald Hampton, in that situation, do you have to sort of show the flag for the police force and show that you're in charge?
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