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The stage-managed ceremonies at each hostage handover, which Netanyahu has so strongly condemned, are intended to show it is still a force to be reckoned with in Gaza.

Despite its evident yearning for crimes of the past, the Mafia in Sicily is still a force to be reckoned with, warns anti-mafia prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia: "Cosa nostra is alive and present."

"DeepSeek made everybody realise that China is a force to be reckoned with," says the computer scientist.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle described his father - who died last April aged 98 - as a "force to be reckoned with".

But it prompted confusion, as well as anger from opposition figures, on Tuesday as those who receive federal loans and grants - such as non-profits and research organisations - reckoned with the reality of swiftly losing funding.