As election post-mortems roll in, some analysts have described Mr. Obama's re-election as a victory for social networking — both the online variety and an older form, of direct appeals to voters in person and through telephone calls — which proved powerful enough to counteract the hundreds of millions of dollars of negative ads that blanketed the airwaves of traditional broadcast media.
There is a logic of continued divergence here which proved powerful; in a world divided into medicine and surgery (and radiology), it proved hard to maintain that cancer (or any other focus) might become a field of convergence.
The marriage has endured; not so my relationship with Century 21, which suffered not only because of the fallen towers, but also the rise of the Web, which proved a powerful narcotic for the wild-eyed breed of bargain hunters.
Nonsense, said Marcel Ophüls in The Sorrow And The Pity, his shattering 1969 reassessment of the Vichy years, which proved so powerful that broadcasters deemed the French people "insufficiently politically mature" for it to be shown.
For another, most Americans still think the president cares about people like them: a measure that may sound woolly, but which has proved powerful in the past among swing voters.
Laser assisted flow deposition (LAFD) is a recently developed growth method, based on a vapour-solid mechanism, which proved to be a powerful approach in the production of ZnO micro/nanostructures with different morphologies as well as high crystallinity and optical quality.
Police eventually made their way to the scene, but they allowed protestors to leave on their own time, which proved to be a powerful contrast to the militant police response, which was marred with arrests at a rail blockade in Belleville a few days earlier.
Being a rather large guy meant he was given the big and powerful horses which proved to be quite a challenge.
Then came the iPad, which proved that a tablet could be powerful, light and, if not exactly cheap (Apple's cheapest model was $500), at least affordable.
But AMD has staged a comeback in the past year with its powerful Athlon chip, which proved to be a match for Intel's best punch, the Pentium III.
Other predictive models should be considered, including ensemble methods, which have proven powerful in other settings [ 34].
