Their show of force has left many Libyans fearful over the country's rocky transition to democracy.
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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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.
Other administration officials argued in favor of a strong show of force, according to senior defense officials.
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.
"In an immense show of force, police have shown their presence, " said Kanene Holder, a spokeswoman for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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.
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 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.
Reaction has been mixed in Mexico to the show of force displayed by Latinos in the U.S. Much of he media has given the demonstrations far less space than American media.
"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.
But a show of military force in the region could put the kidnappers under further pressure.
"The mood is much calmer, " said Villalobos, who thinks the marches are still an important show of political force.
Obama and his allies did not want a show of American force in the country that would offend Muslim sensibilities.
Still, players on eight teams, including the three-time defending champion U.S., are determined to put on the kind of show that will force officials to bring back the sport.
Our mission is to get people out into the world and the Global Vision Awards has been something that we enjoy promoting to show that the force of travel, the impact of travel, is a positive one.
Plans to reduce the size of the reindeer herds (which studies show to be unsustainable) will force more Saami out of their old ways.
Figures from the force show the number of incidents involving knives have almost halved since 2001-2, dropping to 2, 237 in 2011-12.
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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.
Seen here in his mid-thirties, just four years removed from the acrimonious breakup of the most successful double act in the history of show business, Lewis is comedically fearless, so much a force of nature that he literally has Paar climbing the walls.
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?
Sensors can analyse the surface of materials and, using the amount of resistance they show, work out the force to apply to an object.
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.
Presidential candidate John McCain of Arizona and his colleague Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut have proposed a bill to force the show-biz industry to label violent products with government-approved warnings.
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