Still, it took considerable arm-twisting, much of it by Commissioner Roger Goodell, to get the necessary votes.
Even considerable arm twisting in the last 24 hours by Vice President Dick Cheney, among other administration officials, could not put Mr. Bush over the top.
It took considerable arm-twisting to get Plouffe to think past the details of the daily campaign and consider the long view.
Then last year, after considerable arm-twisting from America and the European Union, which pointed out that most of the 300,000 or so fugitive Serbs were still Croatian citizens, Mr Tudjman's government decided that they could come home after all.
Here are some of the most pressing issues: 2010 ELECTION It took considerable American arm-twisting to get the Iraqis to drop their disputes (including ones over who could vote in Kirkuk) and adopt a law for parliamentary elections, now scheduled for March.
Intel's Tri-Gate chips would have to be not merely as good as ARM processors, but significantly better than them, to stand any chance of getting makers of portable devices to ditch their considerable investments in ARM technology and support.
However, the considerable differences in arm length and range of motion, and the objective measured differences in strength between participants with a transient lesion and those with a a permanent lesion, suggest that such bias is unlikely to explain the main results.
However, here too, and in the extended ORIGIN analysis (9), there were limitations for definitive interpretation as: (i) there is a rapid drop-off after the median 6.2 year follow-up (arguably too short to evaluate the full effect of exposure on cancer risk); (ii) there was interrupted glargine exposure in the intervention arm and (iii) there was considerable contamination across the arms (10, 11).
4 5 6 Recently, the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer ERSPCC) reported a 20% decrease in the rate of death from prostate cancer in the screening arm; however, considerable overdiagnosis and overtreatment occurred in the screening arm, as 1068 men had to be screened and 48 men had to have curative treatment in order to save one man's life.
