In Tahiti, Hawaii, and Tonga, native chiefs became powerful kings by gaining access to European arms and support, consolidating power, and accepting missionary advisers and missionary-designed codes of law.
None became powerful brands.
By not withholding anything, she became powerful.
His descendants succeeded him in the post, and the family became powerful samurai in the district.
Eventually Muhammad became powerful enough to punish nonsupporters severely, especially those who leaned toward Mecca.
As televisions got cheaper, audiences grew and admen became powerful, and networks stopped taking risks.
These pamphlets were reasoned discourses, though with the arrival of the French Revolution, pamphlets once again became powerful polemical weapons.
Both of these images, which were assumed to be "real," and which became powerful symbols of victory, were reënactments.
The providers became powerful advocates for the people in their care, and savvy strategists, alert to opportunities to increase financing.
Alternative therapies like hydrotherapy and homeopathy became powerful, as did an obsession with cleanliness, personal and communal.
And also because it has only been very recently that computers became powerful enough to perform searches we need.
