For many years he has played a central behind-the-scenes role in foreign policy.
Then Blunt played a central behind-the-scenes role – joined by former Missouri senators Kit Bond, John Danforth, Jim Talent and John Ashcroft – in trying to push Akin out of the race.
A central motivation behind the play was how "morally compromising" the job had become, says Neville.
The Big Data formula, he noted, has proved to be "incredibly powerful" for tasks like natural-language processing — a central technology behind Google search, for instance.
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and a central force behind the legislation, said on Friday that recent reports about falling home prices have rallied support for the plan.
How to ensure that North Korea does not lie about the scale of its nuclear weapons program was a central dispute behind the collapse of six-nation talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs in late 2008.
A central concept behind death penalty laws, Mr. Kirchmeier said, is that "only the worst people should be executed, and if the jury is not allowed to hear all of the evidence, they can't make a fair decision".
Sadly, there is also little resolution of a central question behind the whole effort: Are religious organizations really more effective in providing social services than government or secular agencies?
Their new relationship may not start well; Mr Berlusconi broke off from discussions during the October 26th summit to tell an Italian television show that the euro was "a currency without a central bank behind it".Mr Berlusconi rose from the collapse of Italy's old political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and a succession of corruption investigations known as Mani Pulite (Clean Hands).
One focal point of his piece is recent comments by Times assistant managing editor Glenn Kramon, who (as I said above) was a central force behind the paper's sustained focus on energy and climate since the "Energy Challenge" series began in 2006.
Samuel, by contrast, had been a central figure behind the emergence of the New Left in England in the late 1950s, as like as not mapping out its formation while sitting at my grandparents' dining room table amid the wreckage of the communist dream.
