That decision has placed the companies at the center of a political and economic maelstrom over blackouts lasting as long as 20 hours a day.

Now they find themselves in a political maelstrom.

Classical music is widely prized as a refuge from the political maelstrom.

We got caught in the political maelstrom and our ideas got traded away.

The Court has largely avoided this political maelstrom.

Investigators have insulated themselves from the political maelstrom swirling around them.

Hari had learned this lesson from hard experience in the political maelstrom of Trantor.

Still, the report is sure to set off a powerful political maelstrom.

What began as an administrative oversight, a 40-year-old perquisite that raised few eyebrows, has grown into a political maelstrom.

Neither party at this point has a great deal of enthusiasm for plunging back into the political maelstrom surrounding Medicare.