These new friends liked the ruthless use of force, the ethnic nationalism, the continued humiliation of the Palestinians.

Brute facts are all facts that are not institutional (metaphysical, social agreement) facts.

As Iraq has shown, hard military power alone cannot provide a solution.

It is time that Israel took its boot off Gaza s windpipe.

Here in Manila, our calls are met with water cannons, and now teargas and brute force.

Social facts have the remarkable feature of having no analogue among physical brute facts (34).

The existence of language is itself constitutive of the social fact (37), which natural or brute facts do not require.

Here's your brute force approach. Once you get through your brute force approach, then you just rip off whole mountaintops. And you end up with the single largest source of carbon emissions, which are coal fired gas plants. That is probably not the best use of bioenergy.

Ortega s display of raw power is thus merely a reminder of his autocratic ways.

Any resort to brute force to suppress demonstrations would finalize the regime s loss of legitimacy.

Bulldozers had dug up roads, destroying electricity lines, sewers and water pipes in a brutal and disproportionate display of power. Most of those killed or injured had been civilians.

And no tyranny can survive for long by relying on brute force alone.

After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states consent or tacit acceptance. If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.

The founding idea of the EU was that relations between states should be governed by rules, not raw power.

The US government spends 450 times more on hard military power than on soft power.

But the Soviets attractiveness as liberators was destroyed by the way they later used their hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

But the reality is that the two issues are connected and the magnitude of the disaster has been made worse by the junta s single minded objective of preserving its power.

After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states consent or tacit acceptance.

If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.

Natural or brute facts exist independently of language thus a mountain is a mountain in every language and in no language it simply is what it is.

One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.

But, charges of corruption aside, this outcome indicates that gas is not such an easy source of hard economic power as it would first appear.

For the EU to succeed, it must pursue the policy launched by the French Presidency, giving priority to stopping the war and distancing itself from Israel s disproportionate use of force.

In Virginia, for instance, human rights advocates report that inmates at two supermax prisons have been hooded and subjected to excessive and malicious use of force by prison staff, often involving electric shock devices and rubber bullets.

In 1907, in the wake of an epochal financial crisis that almost brought a complete global collapse, several countries started to think of finance primarily as an instrument of raw power that could and should be turned to national advantage.

Another theoretical attack, linear cryptanalysis, was published in 1994, but it was a brute force attack in 1998 that demonstrated that DES could be attacked very practically, and highlighted the need for a replacement algorithm.

Some have urged focusing attention on bringing relief efforts to Burma instead of criticizing its government. But the reality is that the two issues are connected and the magnitude of the disaster has been made worse by the junta s single minded objective of preserving its power.

Despite the Iranian opposition s continuing efforts to contest the outcome and advance political liberalization, Ahmadinejad and his allies have largely succeeded in consolidating their hold on power by using brute force to repress the reform movement.

I strongly opposed the international call a year ago to boycott Israel s universities. But the Gaza blockade means that Israel boycotts Palestinian academic life.

If Putin unleashes his well developed apparatus of coercion, he will have played his last remaining card. Any resort to brute force to suppress demonstrations would finalize the regime s loss of legitimacy.

The report challenges the core principles of a faith driven administration and of a president whose political gospel led him to a sharp departure from the culture of conflict resolution in favor of a crusade based on raw power.

As he looks ahead to the verdict of history, he seems to realize that hard power alone will not consolidate his reputation, but he remains hostage to incidents and accidents that could drive even his best laid plans off course.

Israel had proved without doubt, through its aggressive and provocative behaviour, including the use of brute military force against Palestinians and UNRWA facilities, that it was still not ready for the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace that would guarantee the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes.

The Communist government managed to stay in power after Tiananmen not just through brute force. A semblance of political legitimacy, especially among the educated middle class, was purchased with the promise of greater wealth.

What will happen should crude strength and hard language prove inadequate to the task of insuring Russian national interests? No one can say, but Russia s history in this regard is not a source of hope.