Most importantly, the doctrine of natural rights came under powerful philosophical and political attack from both the right and the left.
American policy at Guantánamo came under powerful criticism last fall from a remarkable source: Lord Steyn, a judge of Britain's highest court.
After the Soweto riots of 1976, in which hundreds of blacks died, Barclays came under powerful attack again when its South African branches acknowledged investing millions of dollars in South African Government Defense Bonds.
Not since Euripides' Medea or Racine's Phèdre had the tragic aspects of sex come under such powerful analysis.
By Ian Crouch September 18 , 2012In a campaign season that has recently come under the powerful sway of the Internet video, another entry — more subtle than "Innocence of Muslims" and certainly more "elegantly stated" than Mitt Romney's disdain for the "forty-seven per cent" — has joined the fray.
It was at this time that he came under the powerful influence of the Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who persuaded him to give up architecture for painting and enrolled him among the band of friends who were decorating the walls of the Oxford Union with scenes from Arthurian legend based on Le Morte Darthur by the 15th-century English writer Sir Thomas Malory.
But successive U.S. presidents have come under pressure from the powerful Armenian diaspora and nationalists who insisted Turkey first recognize that the 1915 massacre of Armenians was a genocide before restoring ties.
An increasingly distant leader who is dogged by corruption cases, Mr. Zardari has come under attack from the powerful Pakistani establishment, an alliance of parts of the military and the news media, who want him gone.
Both of you will come under great stress, and powerful third parties you haven't even met yet will likely come into the mix, bringing a whole set of biases of their own.
In seemingly each new market, the peer-to-peer model has come under pressure from a powerful taxi lobby throughout the U.S. In places like California and Seattle, it and other ride-sharing companies have worked with regulatory authorities to create a new framework for their services.
