Such changes demonstrate the formidable power of directional selection over relatively short periods of time.
But far from weakening enforcement of antitrust regulations, settlements show the formidable power that European investigators have over companies.
Braga, best known to English-speaking audiences for her Golden Globe-nominated turn in Kiss of the Spider Woman, has worked steadily since, but it took over three decades for Mendonça to give her a role fiery enough to showcase her formidable power.
Accustomed to using great leverage over union, corporate and political opponents, Mr. Black, 55, operates from a formidable power base.
The Straws are the most formidable power couple in Whitehall.
Marty claimed that Thaci and the Drenica group, which included Fatmir Limaj, had built a "formidable power base in the organized criminal enterprises" in the late nineties, and had exerted "violent control" over the heroin trade in the region.
His father, Harold Fisher, was a formidable power in the Brooklyn Democratic organization.
As the grassroots campaign against blood diamonds has shown, consumers can be a formidable power.
"Red" hurtled along, as if the dancers were possessed by some formidable power beyond themselves.
And it is not as if the Wild offers a formidable power play.
