The common thread was a far more muscular approach.

They call for a more muscular approach, whereby the U.S. wields its huge market clout to bully partners into granting trade concessions.

American voters may hate wars, but they also favor candidates who take a muscular approach to foreign affairs, Professor Green said.

He's aggressive with skate, too, a fish that seems to accept either light poaching and delicate sauces, or the more muscular approach favored here.

This show of works on paper offers an intimate alternative to Mr. Scully's familiar muscular approach to stripe and grid painting.

Beyond trying to gain an advantage on social issues, he is emphasizing that he would have a muscular approach to national security.

The responsibility ethic also suggests a muscular approach to patriotism.

There is a physicality to the rough style of drawing that echoes the artist's muscular approach to wood.

It sketches out a far more muscular and sometimes aggressive approach to national security than any since the Reagan era.

Instinctively, Clinton aides say, the President-elect would favor a muscular approach.