Sentence examples for outside powerful from inspiring English sources

Like many writers born outside powerful metropolitan centres (Portugal in the 1920s was no longer the world power it had been), from James Joyce to Orhan Pamuk, his writing sought to invent (or remake) Portugal as the centre, insisting on the universality of its inhabitants' experience.

More generally, people may be said to live more freely or less freely, depending on facts such as the range and quality of choices open to them, the extent to which they are immune to interference from outside powerful parties, or the extent to which they can pursue options of deep significance to them.

So the itch to run outside is powerful.

D. M. K.: Ettore's idea about going seamlessly from inside to outside is powerful, because the transition is blurred -- there are no steps.

Its institutions, outside of the powerful presidency, remain very weak.

We are more powerful outside government," said Whelton.

They proudly told of ignoring the footsteps of the powerful outside their jury rooms.

This is mainly because, back then, most of the countries currently fighting were colonies, so powerful outside forces imposed stability.

Such is Lloyd's conundrum: entrancing when unfettered, but at risk when subjected to even slightly powerful outside influences.

Finns also have kept their cultural identity intact despite the powerful outside influences of neighbouring Finnic, Baltic, and Germanic peoples.

Still, the violence symbolizes Afghanistan's helplessness in a tug-of-war over its fate among powerful outside forces.