Sentence examples for draw on powerful from inspiring English sources

The BBC Asian Network did not have the benefit of being able to draw on powerful friends in the media to put its case across.

Writer Jennifer Hayward felt the same, stating that like 19th century melodrama and serials, soap operas draw on powerful archetypes.

The President's argument would indeed draw on powerful data from America's experience with an untapped segment of the population.

Posing the problem of inference in terms of an optimization problem allows us to draw on powerful tools in convex optimization and plays an important role in the gain in speed achieved by variational inference schemes, when compared to the Gibbs sampling scheme used in STRUCTURE.

In 2001, while Mr. O'Neal battled a raft of chief executive candidates, he relied heavily on the support of Mr. Patrick, who drew on powerful ties with the Merrill board to go behind Mr. Komansky's back and advance Mr. O'Neal's cause.

His account of the fighting on the eastern front draws on powerful and unfamiliar material from soldiers' letters and diaries found by his researchers in archives in Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, Belgrade and Ljubljana, but never quite builds into an authoritative text; many quotations, though rich and poignant, come across as disembodied soundbites.

They can be especially powerful if they draw on managers from industry with an appetite for taking risk outside a corporate environment (the sort of people who have been hoovered up by private-equity groups).

Here let me step back from this discussion of the world's most powerful democracy, to draw on my own historical knowledge of the world's largest democracy, where we have an older form of hierarchy, which at the same time offers parallels to this discussion of The Wire.

As an archetype, it's a powerful one for a rapper to draw on.

Her poetry — spare, profound, unsentimental, effortlessly transforming the quotidian into the metaphysical, drawing on the powerful themes of time, fate and destiny, yet making them entirely her own — has earned her a near-cult following in Greece.

Chair of the judging panel Ellah Wakatama Allfrey said Makumbi's entry, with its "bereaved widow living in London and gaggle of feisty 'women of a certain age' disrupting a funeral, and its narrative style that draws on a powerful national heritage of dramatic story-telling, significantly expanded our understanding of the possibilities of the short story form".