Sentence examples for once so powerful from inspiring English sources

He was once so powerful that his arrest in 2009 sent shockwaves around the world.

It was once so powerful a paper that it helped engineer the election of a Socialist, Meyer London, to Congress.

The Postmaster General, for example, was once so powerful that the position was included in the president's cabinet.

But this dream of a rosy-pink Europe, once so powerful that even our most anti-western thinkers and politicians secretly believed in it, has now faded.

As Mr. Berezovsky — a man once so powerful he brokered national elections and treated multibillion-dollar companies as personal cash machines — looked on, stunned, the judge called him "dishonest," "unimpressive" and "inherently unreliable".

The Medellin Cartel was once so powerful that it killed dozens of officials and bribed thousands more to prevent the extradition of Escobar to face trial in the US.

David Dein was once considered so powerful at the Football Association that the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho were moved to complain in public that the former Arsenal vice-chairman was using his influence to protect his club from the censure of the governing body.

Such places once hosted cultures so powerful they seemed to master the natural world, taking control of it the way Venetian canals were harnessed to serve as streets.

This, after all, is where the order once had a base so powerful it was seen as a serious threat to early Spanish rule.

It's like a speedy Arab take on dancehall, heated by the same friction between beats and shifting melody that once made acid house so powerful.

Ed Stern told me once why EXAFS is so powerful, because, with a giant computer, one can account for multiple scattering without resorting to the use of RPA, or nearest neighbor even next nearest neighbor interactions.