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powerful

If someone (or something) is powerful, they have much power. The king is a very powerful man. Big guns are powerful weapons. A tiger is powerful animal. The train has a powerful engine.

powerful

having great power or force or potency or effect the most powerful government in western Europe his powerful arms a powerful bomb the horse's powerful kick powerful drugs a powerful argument (= knock-down) strong enough to knock down or overwhelm a knock-down blow (= potent) having great influence (= hefty, muscular) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful a hefty athlete a muscular boxer powerful arms (= herculean) displaying superhuman strength or power herculean exertions (= mighty, mightily, right) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree the baby is mighty cute he's mighty tired it is powerful humid that boy is powerful big now they have a right nice place they rejoiced mightily

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Simple sentences

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
My dad is more powerful than yours.
The curse is very powerful.
Germany then had a powerful army.
He is powerful.
He has powerful arms.
They made more powerful arms.
His powerful speech carried the audience with him.
Moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.
In real life kings are powerful, but in chess they're pretty much worthless.
What would happen if two powerful nations with different languages - such as United States and China - would agree upon the experimental teaching of Esperanto in elementary schools?
The soldiers had more powerful weapons.
What is the most powerful prayer in the world?
Access to the domestic market should act on the whole island as a powerful incentive for economic development.
Fear drives him, he plucks up courage and throws himself into the roaring waves; his powerful arms cut through the flow, and his God feels pity.
She is powerful.
She's a powerful witch.
Indeed this car is small, but it is powerful.
That flower has a powerful smell.
Japan has become a powerful nation.
He has powerful connections in the publishing industry.
In South Korea, the most powerful member of a family, usually the oldest living male, has the power to send members of his family to a psychiatric hospital as he sees fit.
Tragedy is a powerful unifying factor for a nation's people.
It was such a powerful explosion that the roof was blown off.

Movie subtitles

Britannia is much too large and powerful of an opponent to fight with just one Geass.
The only way to answer that question is to understand how the West came to be so powerful in the first place.
These are the individual antennas of the Allen telescope array. It's one of the most powerful observatories in the world and, in fact, the kind of thing that could check out millions of star systems.
They're powerful men, George.
Now you are the most powerful woman in France!
Twelve kingdoms subdued the powerful. Twelve kings became his vassals.
Powerful?
Why powerful?
The doctor is more powerful than you.
Well, anyway, neither beast nor man something monstrous, all-powerful.
I gave her a very powerful narcotic, I'm sure it will be effective soon.
Something older and more powerful.
Our powerful army!
Let the rich and powerful advocate peace.
But if it were true, if that emission really existed, it would be a very powerful tool to study the Galaxy.
On Christmas Eve 1847, after having resisted one of the most powerful countries on Earth for 15 years, the emir admitted defeat.
That, in the end, is what makes him so powerful.
What a ridiculous sentiment. Do you mean to say that this cyborg is more powerful than me? Uhh!
I'm going to become the most powerful drug lord.
Long live Asia under the powerful patronage of the king!
All right now. Be powerful on it now.
I only feel so light to you because your arms are so powerful.
That's a powerful hand. Squeeze.
You are so powerful.
Don't you like powerful men?
Should it become unavoidable, I think I have weapons. that are far more powerful than any political machine.
Bythe kindness of our all powerful king, you have been pardoned.
Now you are the most powerful woman in France.
In summary. Atlantis is a submerged continent a powerful civilization. Geographers do not. know how to locate its location with any certainty.
Powerful cider, ain't it, Tom?
But he's our most powerful friend in these shires and he's in love with you.
Tom, it was powerful warm in school today, wasn't it?
The organization is too powerful to fight.
Miss Scarlett, I's powerful hungry.
Their magic must be powerful or she wouldn't want them so badly.
The great and powerful Oz has got matters well in hand.
I am Oz the great and powerful!
The great and powerful Oz knows why you have come.
Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Oz!
If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises.

News and current affairs

In my view, the most powerful argument to justify today's high price of gold is the dramatic emergence of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East into the global economy.
If the policy were extended to third-country firms, it would have a powerful liberalizing impact.
Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so a powerful spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands.
The Sudairis, it seems, have apparently left their half brother alone to twist in the wind. Abdullah's proposal could weaken his position domestically, particularly in relation to the country's powerful Islamists.
Its people have become powerful, arrogant, and enormously rich.
In October 2007, Cherkesov (now chief of one of the most obscure and powerful services, the Federal Anti-Drug Administration) published another essay in which he lamented his colleagues' degradation: warriors had turned into traders, he complained.
Today, Kuchma rules as an all-powerful president.
So, instead of retiring gracefully, as presidents from Bill Clinton to Boris Yeltsin routinely do, Kuchma wants to change the constitution in order to become an all-powerful prime minister who will never face a limit on the length of his term.
A powerful president, however, is not necessarily wrong for Ukraine.
It is too much to expect that these new fiscal institutions will become as important or powerful as central banks, at least anytime soon.
To resist these powerful pressures, fiscal councils will need to have their work audited periodically by international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, both to protect their independence and to promote accountability.
But because the US is the richest, most powerful country in the world, its neglect is devastating.
Setting standards and goals of human rights is a powerful signal that a country is pointing itself in the right direction.
Indeed, much economic research has demonstrated a powerful relationship between the level of trust in a community and its aggregate economic performance.
It asks simple but powerful questions about how far individuals are inclined to trust those with whom they deal.
New research by three Italian economists, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, and Enrica De Cian does this, and, ultimately, provides a powerful economic case for a much greater focus on adaptation.
If she does, she will be Asia's most powerful woman, perhaps the most powerful in the world, at the end of next year.

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