However, A Bend in the River, published by Knopf in New York in May 1979, immediately won powerful support from reviewers.
By sending troops to Iraq, Mongolia hopes to win powerful friends for a small nation that is often confused with Inner Mongolia, the neighboring Chinese province.
Charles F. MacCormack, president of Save the Children, one of the world's largest aid groups, said he watched in awe over the years as the rock star Bono built bipartisan support on debt relief and global AIDS, winning over powerful elected officials, including some like Jesse Helms, the former Republican senator from North Carolina, who were hostile to foreign aid.
This is why it was always such an event in our house when the West Indies cricket teams of the early 1980s came over from the Caribbean and sent English wickets tumbling: here were our representatives on television winning, fast, powerful and brilliant.
Research has also shown that although cohesion (as measured by questionnaires administered to teams) and winning are powerful predictors of each other, the vector is stronger going from early-season success to midseason cohesion than from early-season cohesion to midseason success.
Still, the GOP managed to prevent the Democrats from winning a powerful supermajority in the state Legislature in 2014, and the party is hoping to build on that in 2016.
In that interview, helpfully, Butz commanded a palpably stronger place -- with more assertive and insightful explications of the play -- just as he completely dominates the production itself with his (previously twice Tony-winning) powerful verve and pathos.
But this week she won a powerful ally: Angela Merkel.
His time in Scotland also won him powerful patrons.
For years, she won with powerful serving and fearsome ball striking off both sides.
