Though I.B.M. kept pushing OS/2 for years, Windows became the industry standard and a monopoly, and Microsoft became as powerful in the personal computer era as I.B.M. had been in the mainframe era.
For the views of special-interest groups, the authors used lobbies ranked as powerful in Fortune magazine's "Power 25" lists plus a further ten industries that spent heavily on lobbying.In cases where a proposed policy change had low support among the wealthy (one in five in favour), the policy was adopted about 18% of the time.
She had never seen herself as powerful in that way before.
None can be seen as powerful in the way that Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial is powerful.
Big Paul was at least as powerful in the underworld as the president was in the world of international politics.
Little known, but as powerful in their way, are Romeyn de Hooghe's indictments of Huguenot persecution under Louis XIV.
The delay, she added, proved that Wall Street was not as powerful in Washington as it had imagined.
Even in normal circumstances, the lieutenant-governor is at least as powerful in Texas as the governor.
Winchell was the movie's target, a columnist as powerful in actuality as J. J. Hunsecker is in the movie, but cut from different cloth to Lancaster's J. J.
Almost as powerful, in fact, as the impulse of the channel controller to move the show that turns out to be the loser.
