A woman can be powerful by virtue of her personality, sexuality, professional expertise, class, religion, race -- or not, depending on any of those things.
Last week, he told a photographer who was perhaps excessively perfectionist to "just take the fucking picture!" This is the ultimate abuse of authority: someone powerful by virtue of birth abusing someone who holds their position by virtue of ability, knowing they can't respond.
In this case the online commenter is "more powerful" only by virtue of his/her ability to anonymously attack.
When he wants to see Senate Leader John Burton — the single most powerful Democrat, by virtue of his position, longevity, and commitment to a liberal agenda — Schwarzenegger often goes to his office, rather than summoning him.
Since its founding 200 years ago as a breakaway congregation, Abyssinian Baptist Church has built itself into one of the city's most powerful institutions, by virtue of its activist pastors, who have included Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and its congregation, which has long been among the city's largest.
Minority administrations hold an extensive set of powerful levers simply by virtue of being in government.
When there is no imbalance, the adjusted treatment effect equals the nominal treatment effect and here ANCOVA is more powerful than ANOVA by virtue of its greater precision [ 18, 31, 32].
He doesn't need to "power-dress": by virtue of his being a man, he is already powerful.
The moral importance of the impartial point of view is that from it, every moral agent counts equally: no one, including the person occupying that point of view, is considered to be intrinsically more significant than anyone else, or to have more powerful claims to attention simply by virtue of who they are.
Recently anointed the 22nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes by virtue of her stewardship of the CBS Evening News – above both Melinda Gates and Madonna – she is reportedly on the brink of surrendering to poor ratings and throwing in the towel.
Unlike the yeast two-hybrid system [49], which is a powerful method for mapping binary interactions, isolation of proteins by virtue of their physical interaction with microtubules is bound to yield multi-protein complexes, thus increasing the interactome complexity.
