Sentence examples for longer powerful from inspiring English sources

The reason isn't that the great powers are no longer powerful; the difference is that their opponents — balky local governments, insurrectionists and jihadists alike — are more potent than they used to be.

People treat you differently when you're no longer powerful.

No longer powerful at home, Mr. Aliyev turned to Washington, knowing that his former father-in-law cared greatly about his reputation there.

The Spanish bank's other high street names, Abbey and Alliance & Leicester, will also trade as Santander, but they are no longer powerful brands in their own right.

But that's better than consigning them to a landfill, where toxic chemicals used in their manufacture can leach into the water table.Before computers became throwaway items, machines that were no longer powerful enough to do the job or broken beyond repair were kept as backups or cannibalised for spares.

But Lee, who left the country 2002 and is now studying in UK, says the shift won't be a result of a rejection of the regime's us-against-the-world message, but rather because this propaganda is no longer powerful enough to trump the lure of the markets.

Of course, unions today are no longer as powerful as they once were.

The central government's writ is no longer as powerful as it once was.

But Putin and his party are no longer as powerful as they were before Dec. 4.

Syria's own armed forces are no longer as powerful as they were during the cold war.

"The subtext", says Steve Early, author of "Civil Wars in US Labour", "is 'Vote Obama, he'll screw us less' .This is a pragmatic message, especially as labour is no longer as powerful as it was.