Brady, confined to a wheelchair and unable to resume his duties, campaigned vigorously for the bill, despite fierce opposition from the National Rifle Association NRAA), one of Washington's most-formidable interest groups.
By the early 1990s the crack scare had faded, but a series of increasingly ferocious laws, passed in the second half of the 1980s, set the framework within which Mr Bush's war on drugs is still waged today.This framework is not immutable, although formidable vested interests—including the police and prison officers now back tough drugs laws.
In Italy, a series of well-meaning prime ministers have been unable to overcome the formidable vested interests that see reforms as a threat to the special deals they have carved out.This combination of size and lassitude is dangerous, because France and Italy are at once too big to fail and too big to bail out.
It's a human concept that became conventional wisdom.' " To Icahn, it may have seemed that the roadblocks he faced were not a sign of a sound bureaucracy but, rather, evidence of a power play by more formidable special interests, in the form of the ethanol lobby and Big Oil.
Loving husband, of Shahara and father of four daughters he was a figure larger than life and formidable in his interests.
The program was decidedly eclectic, in keeping with Mr. Meyer's status as a formidable player whose interests range from chamber music to bluegrass and beyond.
For many years, Dr. Meyers served as Director of RMHA where she inspired countless clinicians with her formidable intellect and passionate interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
Deciphering the map of regulatory sites and regions that shape the genome is therefore a formidable challenge of major interest, for which computational methods that identify such features can be extremely helpful.
