brute force

It is thus not simply that the president and Republican elites have split on policy: The brute force of Trump’s political power means that, for now at least, the president has the whip hand.

Arbit said it took “sheer brute force” to enact new hate crimes laws in this hyperpartisan era.

Brute force is needed to crack open the thick layer of rock that covers what Professor Emily Bamforth, who's leading the dig, describes as "palaeo gold".

But then, Sorrentino conceived Pius as a conservative hardliner who would have favored brute force anyway.

In truth, American might garnished with Trumpian brute force has hurried along these negotiations and this is far from the deal some talked about during President Trump's first term.