The game has been a financial driving force for Konami, reaching 5 million units sold in the financial year of 2009.

And America's 12,000 are not the financial force they used to be.

Islamic investment is growing at more than 20pc each year, with global market of about $919bn (£555bn) meaning it is now a serious financial force.

While overall growth may help mobile providers stave off consolidation, the financial forces at play will be hard to overcome in the long run.

"He committed himself to being the creative force, not the financial force, behind the project."

China may be a major international financial force, but most of its people live in poverty.

He understood from looking at the man why Emery Power had become the great financial force that he was.

Despite all the financial forces at work, it is often the personal circumstances of the chief executive that sets a deal in motion.

The point is that we are all at the mercy of tidal waves of financial forces.

He was also the financial force behind our sparkling new civic theater, due to open Friday night.