Compared with these other formidable pressure groups, consumer protection is the poor relation of the lobbying family.
Dr. Holloman found himself under formidable pressure to close and curtail services, the last thing he wanted to do.
While the group will claim that its order to military units to stand down, which took effect from midnight last night, was a response to the IRA's decision to disarm, it was under formidable pressure from other loyalists.
But watching Billy buck the formidable pressure of his family to pursue ballet was hard to resist, and Ethan was clearly struck by the accomplished pirouettes of David Alvarez, who played the title role at ourperformance.
Then, the long-delayed but crucial issues of Jerusalem and refugees, Israel-Palestine borders and Jewish settlements, were finally addressed, with formidable pressure on Yasser Arafat to concede the match and yield any further claims against Israel, a pressure he successfully resisted with the reward of Arab accolade and American-Israeli contumely.
Together, they bring formidable pressure for participants at the upcoming U.N. Paris Climate Summit to reach agreement for aggressive actions on behalf of present and future generations.
As the dominant world language, English exerts a formidable pressure, yet, Milosz, though living and working in America, still writes (as he says in the introduction to his recent "Land of Ulro") without trying "to reach anybody in particular, except perhaps a few fastidious people able to read my Polish and belonging to the same circle of literati". Nothing like making the reader feel shut out.
The greatest long-term challenges to this environment are the inevitable and always formidable countervailing pressures of ease, accommodation, and complacency.
The conflicts are too formidable, the pressure to amass data and promise everything to advertisers is too strong for even the well-intentioned to resist.
Under formidable international pressure to pull back from the West Bank, Prime Minister Sharon has been reinforced in his defiance by a series of Palestinian suicide bombings that have come at crucial moments.
More recently, I bowed to formidable family pressure to get our dog Tatty, mostly because she looks like a black version of Snowy and so I thought she might lead us to adventures.
