In other cases, it seemed the targets were simply powerful people.
This monarch, who eschewed corsets and shocked doctors with her frankness about her body, was simply powerful.
The researchers involved in the study, academics based at the Constitution Unit at University College, London, maintain that they are simply powerful myths.
The US navy is simply too powerful.
Second, government is simply not powerful enough to hold off the global economy.
The US, like Britain and many other western nations, is simply too powerful to be persuaded to be held to the standards it typically expects of others.
Leshchenko and others have argued that he ought to be prosecuted, but at the moment this seems unlikely; he is simply too powerful.
On the other hand, John Douglas Thompson, one of the finest Shakespearean actors around, is simply too powerful a presence to play the loyal Kent amid this tepid company.
The political momentum to develop such projects in China is simply too powerful, particularly because China is facing a growing energy shortage.
An official investigator, Cho Joon-woong, began looking into his allegations in January.There is a widespread belief that Samsung, whose sales are equivalent to some 20% of South Korea's GDP, is simply too powerful to be brought to heel by Mr Cho's inquiry.
