The film, which has not been distributed, features a long line of frustrated lawyers, real estate agents, architects and property owners, and portrays the commission as an all-powerful enforcer that can "strike the fear of God" into property owners.
When they can't, I am less concerned with Satanism's alleged power to make Harvard unsafe for Catholics than the problem of big and powerful religions enforcing their privilege by stomping on small and powerless ones.
This is a powerful dictum, enforced from early childhood.
Assar Lindbeck, a veteran economist, suggests that the board has become a Social Democratic holy cow that should be slaughtered by any new government.Although there is no formal minimum wage, Sweden's powerful unions enforce one in practice.
The former European commissioner Neelie Kroes, who is now a paid adviser to Bank of America and Uber, failed to declare her directorship of an offshore firm in the Bahamas while she was the most powerful corporate enforcer in Brussels.
In addition, Mr. Bebchuk said, outsiders can no longer take over the company by buying up its stock -- a powerful way of enforcing investors' will.
As the robust Chinese economy's demand for resources grows, Beijing's commercial ships are venturing farther from shore and its more powerful navy is enforcing claims in disputed waters.
Many of the nation's top doctors depend on federal grants to support their work, and attaching fresh conditions to those grants could be a powerful lever for enforcing new ethical guidelines on the universities.
"We have led the international community in both creating and enforcing powerful sanctions against rogue regimes, terrorist groups and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, with crippling effects on the government of Iran in particular," said a statement from the agency.
Second, the Siemens case demonstrates that independent but coordinated prosecutions are a powerful tool for enforcing international anti-corruption standards.
