Sentence examples for earned powerful from inspiring English sources

Despite the company's rocky relationship with the Open Space Alliance and with various state and city parks officials, it has earned powerful allies.

The subtext, both with Trump supporters and in these two novels, is whiteness — and the sense of entitlement, the powerful claim to earning power, that whiteness in America often brings.

That penchant for power and glory earned him powerful enemies at virtually every step of his ascendance.

Yesterday he said his advocacy had earned him powerful enemies both in Bosnia and in this country.

My own lack of proper enthusiasm earned a powerful slap in the face at a drunken dinner the night before her opening.

The whistleblower's "name, shame and jail" mantra has made him an underground hero but equally earned him powerful enemies, so he keeps his real identity secret.

IN the fall of 2000, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis had not yet earned any powerful enemies, at least so far as they were aware.

But Oppenheimer was not always the penitent scientist of popular imagination; he supported the development of small, tactical atomic weapons for use against the Soviets in Europe.Still, his opposition to the hydrogen bomb earned him powerful enemies, and his politics gave them the ammunition to destroy him.

First applied to the GPZ900R of 1984, a hard-edged machine powered by a groundbreaking 16-valve, liquid-cooled 4-cylinder engine, the name soon earned such powerful associations that it became a generic term for racy sportbikes of any make.

Very few singers, Lord Harewood writes, "have earned so powerful a valedictory from so senior a colleague".

Angélique Kidjo has earned a powerful reputation on the world stage.