An ex-president retains enormous international prestige without many of the constraints that limit a sitting president.
Weaver countered by telling reporters that he retains enormous affection for McCain and desperately wants him to become president.
Though he retains enormous power and still symbolizes the Palestinian national movement like no one else, Mr. Arafat has proven to be an unreliable negotiating partner.
Paul Rudd plays the hero, who has access to a serum that enables him to shrink to insect-size while retaining enormous reserves of strength.
That is why once upon a time, and still today, in attitudes to acting the Academy retains enormous faith in British eloquence, stylish manners and the overall assumption that sounding British is a measure of class or villainy.
They were long belittled and suppressed by the leadership of the organization, which retains enormous influence in setting standards of psychological practice and ethics in the US and elsewhere.
Amnesty International warned last week that "despite President Rouhani's popular mandate, Iran's clerically-dominated politico-religious establishment, headed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and hardliners within its security and judicial sectors, retain enormous power and influence and, to a large extent, continue to have the determining voice on the nature and pace of change in Iran".
This test of wills over the weekend pitted Japan's leader against one of its most entrenched and coddled interest groups, a nuclear power industry that retains enormous clout even after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Even with Mr. Bremer's departure and the dissolution of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American government and Mr. Negroponte will retain enormous influence here, staffing an embassy that the Americans say will be the world's largest and controlling the distribution of more than $8 billion in reconstruction aid.
Despite the crisis, the global economy still retains enormous strengths.
