Sentence examples for powerful at the time from inspiring English sources

The executive branch was sort of the least powerful at the time.

This was amplified in The Old Curiosity Shop, where the death of Little Nell was found overwhelmingly powerful at the time, though a few decades later it became a byword for "Victorian sentimentality".

Few managers can claim to have guided two different clubs to Scottish football's showpiece in four seasons, particularly given that neither was especially powerful at the time and one was from the First Division.

Although it seemed powerful at the time, it didn't take long before we reached the limits of the available programs.

The measure passed and was signed by Gov. Bill Richardson, the state's most powerful Democrat at the time.

That was a rhetorical gesture — a powerful one, at the time, if soon turned facile by repetition.

That was a rhetorical gesture a powerful one, at the time, if soon turned facile by repetition.

But even with powerful admirers at the time - like Walker Evans and Edward Steichen, the director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art - he struggled to make ends meet.

"Boulez was such a powerful figure at the time in France, and the French government so in thrall to him and his aesthetic that any new music that did not have his imprimatur was doomed".

The modern Mexican state of Oaxaca is now the centre of the heterogeneous Otomanguean phylum; but the only linguistic groups of that family that played a great part in Mesoamerican civilization were the Mixtec and Zapotec, both of which had large, powerful kingdoms at the time of the Spanish conquest.

Alk and Gray depict these plans for armed insurrection as heroic; though the Panthers' hip political rhetoric exerted a powerful allure at the time, this pair of films suggests that their most enduring legacy may well be their most pacific one.