As a result, European Commission officials rely much more on feedback from rival companies than agencies in the Unites States do, giving the American petitioners another powerful forum.
With Jerome Foundation support, the series has transformed itself from a pickup group presenting existing pieces into a diverse, powerful forum for new work.
As a powerful forum for ideas, college radio stations are vital parts of student and community life, and Nashville will soon join other cities in discovering that their silence is deafening.
Sarah Norman, strategic director of the council's community directorate, says the project "puts people with a learning disability in the front seat, doing the driving", adding that it has proved to be "a very powerful forum".
It used to be the stuff of locker rooms, bathroom walls and little black books, but sexual gossip among teenagers has been showing up lately in what some educators and others call a disturbingly powerful forum: Internet sites.
The bully pulpit that is the US presidency, especially at a time when it is occupied by a man of African descent, would have been a powerful forum to try to nudge African leaders in the right direction.
Mr. Keating's lawsuit provided him with a powerful forum to strike back at the Government, putting regulators on the defensive and introducing important pieces of evidence that at the least raised questions about how officials had handled the affair.
So part of the genesis of In the Company of Men is to do my part and say, 'This is a great profession.' " With Jerome Foundation support, the series has transformed itself from a pickup group presenting existing pieces into a diverse, powerful forum for new work.
In later life, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist founded the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy - a powerful forum that brings together the world's top diplomats and defence officials to discuss global policy issues.
