Sentence examples for became a powerful factor from inspiring English sources

In the day-to-day press of events, proximity became a powerful factor.

Not until 1226, however, when Frederick II reasserted imperial authority in northern Italy, did it again become a powerful factor in Italian politics for a long period.

The Slavs were settlers and cultivators rather than plunderers and within 100 years had become a powerful factor in the region.

Repatriates from former French colonies are concentrated around Nice. Tourism is the dominant activity, and the "sunbelt" image which it accords to this coastal belt has become a powerful factor in attracting big technology firms to the area.

For all the talk that money has become such a powerful factor in elections — this year more than ever — a loss by Ms. Whitman would certainly raise questions about that theory, at least in California.

Kalākaua became a powerful king, unconstrained by political factors.

From their initial discovery as factors that suppress recombination (Sturtevant 1917), inversion mutations that reordered genes in the genome became a powerful genetic marker to assay naturally occurring genetic variation.

There he became a powerful administrator and legislator.

The English-language Web site became a powerful international instrument.

It became a powerful state of the Teutonic Knights.

This proved to be a remarkably successful strategy and Catholicism became a powerful force.