They threw fewer chancy off-loads and turned to their forward pack with Vunipola scoring twice in double-quick succession from powerful lineout drives.
For much of the last decade they have suffered a succession of powerful blows — from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to rapidly rising fuel costs and the recession.
Three powerful explosions in rapid succession shook central Baghdad on Tuesday evening in what apparently was a mortar attack on the headquarters of the American civilian authorities here.
In his 22 years as Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, a tenure that ended in 2005, Prince Bandar was a powerful ally to a succession of presidents.
Over the next several decades, Rome became an increasingly important centre of artistic and architectural patronage, primarily as a result of the munificence of a succession of powerful popes.
After a brief period during which he served in his country's foreign service, Montalvo spent most of his life in exile, writing powerful essays attacking a succession of Ecuador's dictators.
She advanced as the protege of a succession of powerful men, among them Josef Korbel, the Czechoslovakian emigre professor (and father of Madeleine Albright Brent Scowcroftfthethe arch-realist national security adviser to the first president Bush; and, of course, George Bush.
The succession of powerful storms and severe flooding which has devastated parts of Scotland over Christmas and the New Year has already cost the economy up to £700 million, experts have said as the country faces another day of heavy rain on Friday.
But here is what we are skeptical about: We have seen a succession of powerful people — city councils and mayors, county supervisors — step up to a podium and say that Los Angeles' approach to housing homeless people has failed, so they're intervening with a plan that supposedly will work better.
It also helps if you've lived the kind of life that offers fodder for romance novels: a high society childhood in France and New York, precocious professional success, marriages to a succession of wealthy and powerful men.
