Sentence examples for powerful at the start from inspiring English sources

Looking back, his progress through the series from clueless stooge to courageous leader is so dramatic that I wonder whether the films should have focused on him all along, rather than the starchy kid who was brave and powerful at the start, and who stayed much the same through to the end.

Thus, Hogarth made powerful enemies at the start of his career, and, when they retaliated about 1730 by nullifying royal interest in his work, he was cruelly disappointed.

There was a powerful call at the start for Britain to intervene on behalf of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, a young Saudi pro-democracy protester sentenced to death by beheading and crucifixion.

Each card has an attached in-match cost; you cannot simply request the most powerful gun at the start of a match – rather, you must wait until later in the game when you can afford this cost, a smart natural balancing mechanic.

In April there was a particularly bloody attack when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber detonated a powerful device at the start of a marathon race in Waliweriaya, killing a dozen people including a government minister and a former Olympic athlete.

"If you can hit someone with a very powerful scene right at the start of your documentary, you've got their attention and they're more likely to stick with you".

They also believe that there are deep divisions within the CWU – a view shared by ministers – but are amazed that in a newspaper interview Hayes described his union as more powerful than Arthur Scargill at the start of the 1984 miners' strike.

The three-time NBA Champion took part in a powerful opening monologue at the start of the ESPY Awards this year, calling for an end to the tension between police officers and African Americans.

Considering how much we talk about smartphones running the show today, it's interesting to see just how powerful featurephones were at the start of 2014 in a number of other markets: they accounted for a majority of sales in every market in Q1, with India in the lead with 94% of all mobile sales going to feature phones.

Yes, a few powerful men of industry at the start" — supporters at AMOR's founding included Paul Newman and Prince Albert of Monaco — "but you have to make it concrete".

An advocate of Englightenment and reason in a land of powerful religious traditions, Goya at the start of the 19th century gave dark life to folk beliefs in witchcraft.