Green saw Brown's life as an unfortunate convergence of powerful opposing forces.
Getting that done in the face of powerful opposing forces — from consumers who will always want their fuel, electricity, food and clothing to be cheaper than it is, to corporations driven by the bottom line — will ultimately be a matter of sheer political will.
To almost criminally oversimplify, American Gods traps Shadow between two powerful opposing forces: the Old Gods, traditional sources of guidance and objects of worship, and the New Gods, who represent modern-day icons like media and money.
powerful figures opposed to reform?
Their gentry, wishing to share in the privileges of the Polish szlachta, wanted a real union, but the powerful magnates opposed it.
Ramos, who was constitutionally barred from running for a second term, endorsed House Speaker José de Venecia, and many of the country's powerful businessmen opposed Estrada's populist proposals.
Asserting government control means challenging many powerful interests opposed to conservation, said Eliseo Gálvez, the deputy executive secretary of the government's National Council of Protected Areas.
powerful figures opposed to reform?—but he thinks that he knows why the abuse has picked up lately: "I wrote that I think that the Chinese currency should be allowed to float free".
This is great news for a beleaguered city, which has had a bad press since the days of William Wilberforce (when many powerful people opposed the abolition of the slave trade).
And the result, which largely preserved the status quo, was not exactly devastating to Mr. Christie: it left the powerful governor opposed by a Democratic Legislature that has been less a real counterweight than a foil and that is answerable to a few Democratic party bosses who have generally let Mr. Christie have his way.
