Sentence examples for a powerful state from inspiring English sources

It is also an enigma, a powerful state wary of power, a lusterless leader.

New York's top law enforcement officer is using the Martin Act, a powerful state law that gives prosecutors broad powers to investigate fraud.

At the same time, a powerful state senator named Glenn McConnell has threatened a legislative vendetta against the power company, arguing that Mr. Bessinger has the right to hold unpopular opinions.

It became a powerful state of the Teutonic Knights.

Lan Na was a powerful state and a centre for the spread of Theravada Buddhism.

Do-Aklin's grandson Wegbaja (c. 1645 85) made Abomey into a powerful state.

And a longstanding consensus across the political spectrum around a powerful state has also helped.

After 738 a powerful state, Nanzhao, emerged in Yunnan and established a city there called Dali.

Correa said he was trying to support an individual threatened by a powerful state.

A greater degree of centralization and organization of the cult would generally follow from the establishment of a powerful state.

This sounds like a plot lifted from a Bond supervillain, yet it is precisely what a powerful State Department official told a Congressional hearing in 1967.