Unlike both "The Godfather" and "The Last Don," in which rich detail and character development compensated for lumbering plotting, "Omerta" reads like an unfinished draft, intense in parts, thin and shallow in others.
The Department of Environmental Conservation came under intense pressure after issuing draft regulations governing the drilling last year.
The Bills did not pursue Peters, either, signing him after the draft after intense lobbying by his agent, McNally said.
It was drafted, during intense debate and in inconsistent French and English versions, to address the treatment of spies and saboteurs.
It is not unusual for an N.F.L. prospect to use intense training to boost his draft standing.
Our Ultimate I.P.A. is so intense that we recommend you draft a living will before cracking this puppy open.
Miami's swift response was likely spurred by its recognition that everyone in the N.F.L. would be under intense scrutiny after Sam was drafted, and by the memory of the franchise's own recent sordid, public shame.
Ken Langone, the billionaire Home Depot founder who in recent weeks led an intense but unsuccessful effort to draft the New Jersey governor, Christopher J. Christie, into the presidential race, has decided he will now support Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
Only 2 months later, after intense media discussions about the draft laws presented by the government, in May 2013, opinion polls in Germany showed that two-thirds of the respondents reject the utilization of "fracking" and only 10%% answered that they do not know this technology or had no opinion about it [23].
It was DOEE's similarly euphemistic language that triggered intense public outcry to the draft version of the Plan earlier this year, in part because of the long history of TNR efforts in our nation's capitol.
