adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deep/strong/powerful instinct
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He bent down, obeying a deep instinct to protect himself from danger.
a great/powerful nation
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The United States is the most powerful nation in the world.
a hard/powerful punch
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My stomach took a couple of hard punches.
a large/powerful economy
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the world’s two most powerful economies
a powerful explosion
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The powerful explosion was heard from Portland, Maine to Albany, New York.
a powerful metaphor (= one that works very well )
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His election campaign used the powerful metaphor of ‘building a bridge to the next century’.
a powerful myth (= that has a lot of influence on people )
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There is a powerful myth that crime has increased – in fact there was much more crime 100 years ago.
a powerful position
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Many leaders from that period are still in powerful positions in government.
a powerful speech (= having a strong effect on people's opinions )
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He gave a powerful speech calling for unity.
a powerful/potent reminder
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The soldiers' deaths are a powerful reminder of the price we pay for freedom.
a strong/powerful incentive
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The possibility of acquiring wealth acts as a strong incentive in many people's lives.
a strong/powerful influence
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The press can have a powerful influence on the way people vote.
big/powerful
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The newer model has a more powerful engine.
economically powerful (= rich and powerful )
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economically powerful countries like the US
immensely powerful/strong/important etc
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Nationalism is an immensely powerful force.
powerful (= having a very strong effect on someone )
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Grief is a very powerful emotion.
powerful
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His arms were folded across his powerful chest.
powerful (= with a lot of force )
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Flights were cancelled after a powerful earthquake shook the northwest of the country.
profound/powerful (= very big, in a way that changes someone or something significantly )
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My father’s death had a profound effect on me.
strong/powerful magic
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Her fingers moved to make the sign that protected against strong magic.
strong/powerful
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He had powerful shoulders and a thick neck.
strong/powerful
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The urge was too strong to resist.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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It's more powerful than the regular injection models, but not quite as powerful as the full-blown turbos.
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The Fokker was as powerful as any plane of its day.
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And his hunger, as he kissed her, seemed as powerful as her own.
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But what is important here is diet may be as powerful as taking medication.
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Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself.
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Davis' testimony did not turn out to be as powerful as Jones had expected.
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Nevertheless, Ramsay's consummate sense of pictorial design remains as powerful as ever.
extremely
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Here Kasparov should have sealed 41 c8 when the threats of g3 and g4 would be extremely powerful .
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But soon after lunar sunrise, it emitted an extremely powerful blast of radio energy.
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Peppermint, for example, is extremely powerful , whereas sandalwood is very mild.
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Since smiling is an extremely powerful reinforcer, this visual interaction is important in bringing about the closeness of parent and child.
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His key evolutionary innovation was separating the heating chamber from the cooling chamber; this made his engine extremely powerful .
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Britain's negotiating position is thus extremely powerful .
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Yet such desires are extremely powerful , and for most people-especially non-philosophers-quite hard to control.
immensely
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The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
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Sometimes I would feel immensely powerful , feel that I, single-handedly, might change the course of Woolf scholarship.
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But there still remained immensely powerful ministers who led the fight for increased public investment and spending measures to cut unemployment.
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The Savoyards also made Turin an immensely powerful fortress.
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He was about 5 foot 10 inches tall but immensely powerful .
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Jack was never flurried, his cool, unruffled play was a hallmark of his game, along with some immensely powerful clearances.
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But the controls are complex because the machine is immensely powerful .
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Taken together, the new biotechnologies and the pending scientific insights will be immensely powerful .
less
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The economically less powerful sections of the middle classes were growing fast both in numbers and in political consciousness.
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But smaller, less powerful teams like this one are more vulnerable to the capriciousness of the games.
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If I use unleaded will my engine be less powerful ?
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They were so-named two centuries ago because they resembled planets when viewed through the much less powerful telescopes of the time.
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The flavours of both cheeses are less powerful than the bouquets.
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ChemWindow Classic is a simpler version of the program recommended to users who have less powerful systems.
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This is not because the family had become less powerful .
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The judges may have seen him as less powerful than he once was.
more
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Some are nothing more than ethereal vapours, others are more powerful , more evident.
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Even more powerful was the impact of television.
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Indiscrimate roadside spraying using more powerful weedkillers has been banned because the chemicals found their way into water supplies.
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In some ways, this can be an advantage because it makes the programs more powerful .
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In the following year they were replaced by five more powerful turbines and a larger steam engine.
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And they could be a more powerful and intrusive problem than any you encountered in the corporate infighting of your previous job.
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Goering had noted many times before that the fatter and more powerful he got, the more attractive women found him.
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We can get away with this because we are so prosperous, so secure and so much more powerful than everyone else.
most
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Or so predicts Hermes, one of the City's most powerful institutions with more than £50 billion to spend.
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The next most powerful people are successful older men.
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It has one of the most powerful engines of its type in the world.
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Membership in the United Nations' most powerful body includes 10 rotating and five permanent members.
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The most powerful Lord of the Dark Ireland.
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The most powerful reinforcer is performance.
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Before very long he becomes the leader of one of the most powerful teenage gangs in Brooklyn.
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But the most powerful aspect of Englerization is welfare reform.
so
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He seemed so powerful at the time.
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The wind off the beach was so powerful it was difficult to hold the Land-Rover in lane.
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I have to take it a little at a time, it is so powerful .
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At no other time was the pulse of prayer so powerful in his parish.
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Gianni Bugno, so powerful in the hills and the current world road champion, must be among the favourites.
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But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.
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When a woman's voice answered she had to hang up, her anger was so powerful .
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The stench is so powerful that you feel - and sometimes are - violently sick.
too
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Third placed Hawarden Park should be too powerful at home for bottom of the table Chirk.
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Self-interest is just too powerful , and the only thing that can contain it is competition.
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The shrimp growers are too powerful to be touched.
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Others saw the new media as too powerful and pervasive to be left entirely uncontrolled and unregulated by government.
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Our feelings seem almost too powerful , the sort that burn themselves out.
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But the Lancastrian army proved too powerful , and after a brave fight the defences were breached.
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Is that too powerful a word for the positive experiences of old age?
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In 1996 Suharto attempted to have her ousted because he feared that she was becoming too powerful .
very
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By contrast, we have very powerful approaches to understanding individual differences within groups.
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Radar mapping is carried out by using a very powerful radar transmitter to send bursts of radar power at the target.
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You need a very powerful microscope if you are to see the fundamental crystal structure of our environment.
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We have beaten a very powerful conservative, Sen.
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The book is a very powerful communication on ritual abuse and its effects.
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Such a feeling would be very powerful and could lead to the intense craving observed among alcoholics.
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The cement is very powerful and will not be removed by hot water, soaps, or detergents.
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Starting with nothing, he has become very , very rich and very, very famous, and very, very powerful .
■ NOUN
argument
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There is a powerful argument for saying that, in general, it should be subject to the rules of administrative law.
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Despite these powerful arguments against mutual funds, there are still reasons why it makes sense for ordinary investors to own them.
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One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s.
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These were certainly powerful arguments for sending the coach back, but they did not prevail.
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A powerful argument for causation could be the effect of treatment interventions.
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It is a powerful argument , as was demonstrated by the heated responses it provoked.
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Which might be a powerful argument for his essential innocence.
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While those are powerful arguments , more speed, extra refinement and sharper handling would put it right on the pace.
computer
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Traditionally, one powerful computer is used as a dedicated server using all its power and memory to run the network.
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The program requires a powerful computer .
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Specialist image analysis equipment for light and electron microscope images also require interfacing with powerful computers .
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The network focuses on a single application: networking powerful computers to help doctors plan radiation therapy for cancer treatment.
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And character recognition is relatively slow and prone to errors even on powerful computers .
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You can simulate them on a very powerful computer .
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If you're only chatting it text, you won't need a particularly fast connection, nor a powerful computer .
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In fact, experienced users with powerful computers will find they can run several of these tasks at the same time.
force
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They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces .
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The buildup on income over a long period is a powerful force .
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Drama can be a powerful force for motivating and enhancing work in every curriculum area.
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Religion, combined with practical help, can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
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The present account concerns that middle stratum and how its views might relate to wider and more powerful forces of society.
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Computers, and the underlying communications network that supports them, have been a powerful force for such standardization.
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As an ally, Nails was a powerful force .
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And in the long run the friendships formed in these social situations can be a powerful force in decision making.
influence
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The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
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In naturally occurring decision environments, interactions between situational demands and self-referent factors can exert a powerful influence on the decision-making process.
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The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians.
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In the coming millennium, Dahl predicted, new telecommunications technology will exert a powerful influence for change on the democratic process.
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Children think in black and white, good and bad, and the comic has a powerful influence on shaping attitudes.
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Room temperature exerted a powerful influence on the going rate of any timekeeper.
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At every stage in the communication process we can detect the powerful influence of culture.
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Peer pressure among journalists also can have a powerful influence on improving performance.
man
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He was a very powerful man .
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The Sporting News recently had the nerve to name Woods the most powerful man in all of sports.
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She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly.
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He impressed me as a physically powerful man operating for the moment under great restraint.
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He was by now a very powerful man and had created jealousy and resentment.
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Frankly, in our state, they bullied one of the most powerful men in the state.
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His first experience of the conflict between two powerful men , tossing between them the idea of war.
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Throughout history powerful men have usually had more than one mate each, even if they have had only one legitimate wife.
position
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Many party leaders from that period are still in powerful positions in government.
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Over the years they have carved out a powerful position within the town's antique trade.
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They build and arm a huge city, and achieve a powerful position .
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The real menace is the right shoulder, which at the top of the backswing adopts a potentially powerful position .
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No child should be put in the powerful position of having to tell tales on another child.
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We send in negative data on our peers - those who are competing with us for more powerful positions .
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Gen Khan was given command of the Lahore corps, his first corps command and still a powerful position .
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He was in a powerful position to become the single successor, but his luck did not hold.
reason
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This is one very powerful reason why I am writing this chapter.
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Those are two powerful reasons why every text-based and still-picture-based interactive experiment like videotext has failed in the past.
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There are, in fact, other powerful reasons for making jojoba a universal substitute for whale oil.
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This alone is a powerful reason why one new religion should be allowed to develop to replace all the old.
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It was also due to a barbaric delight in high-sounding verbiage, and probably this was the most powerful reason for its use.
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Both sides have powerful reasons to hold fast to their traditional positions.
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To transfer this judgment of seriousness into desirable legal responses is no easy matter, however, for two powerful reasons .
voice
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The powerful voices of the Fabians, where the Webbs proved insistent campaigners, urged State intervention on a new scale.
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These powerful voices have far more allegiance to right-wing causes then they do to Republican leaders.
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Many of them reiterate the plea for a high profile personality to present a powerful voice on behalf of the Institute and its members.
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The alternative fan networks continue to provide an articulate and powerful voice for supporters.
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The lessons in singing and elocution had left her with a pretty powerful voice .
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A powerful voice has been the influential panel of experts, led by Norman Augustine of Martin Marietta.
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With sons the family would be a powerful voice in village politics.
weapon
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Fear is one of the Dark Lord's most powerful weapons yet some of his army are defeated by it.
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Procrastination or partial responses are powerful weapons .
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New powers to refuse wastes and revoke licences are potentially powerful weapons in controlling the movement and safe disposal of wastes.
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And designing and implementing new mercantile processes is the most powerful weapon available to wage that war effectively.
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Manipulation People who manipulate use guilt and blame-they are powerful weapons to get people to do something.
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Fear is proving a powerful weapon for keeping such places quiet.
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It is a powerful weapon of persuasion.
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At the same time, exposure in the press is a powerful weapon against the abuse of authority and wrong doing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a powerful bomb
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a powerful civil rights group
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a powerful story of love and forgiveness.
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Ammonia has a very powerful , distinctive smell.
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Berlusconi was the owner of a powerful media empire.
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He was a tall man with a powerful physique.
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Her desire to hit him was so powerful that she had to force herself to leave the room at once.
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I was impressed with Dinsmore's powerful command of language.
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Jealousy is a very powerful emotion.
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John held her in his powerful arms.
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Nigeria is the most powerful and populous nation in black Africa.
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one of the most powerful men in US politics
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Parliament had become more powerful than the King.
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Ten of the world's most powerful men met to discuss trade barriers.
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The powerful smell of cabbage, sardines, and body odor filled the train.
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The drug is a thousand times more powerful than LSD.
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The Steelers' powerful offense has scored over 25 points a game.
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There was a powerful smell coming from the laundry basket.
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This Civic is more powerful than the last model.
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Tyson landed a powerful left hook on Doulgas' chin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But even notoriously conservative newspaper publishers recognize that the Web is a radical and powerful publishing medium.
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He had gone for ever, to be replaced by the man she had really married, the ambitious and powerful Damian Flint.
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In many ways the most powerful impetus to greater concentrations came from the state.
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Looking around the modern world, she was not encouraged; powerful men are often childless.
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MultiGen, meantime, has been made more powerful through a number of virtual reality options.
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The difficulty was partly political; the favoured regions, London notably, had powerful friends in the major teaching hospitals.
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The hospital subsequently discovered that her death was the result of a massive overdose of a powerful anticancer drug.
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The recent dramatic growth of urban areas has been one powerful catalyst for change.