Sentence examples for powerful contemporary from inspiring English sources

Now that Nixon's most powerful contemporary, Pres.

He introduces the reader to the powerful contemporary agrarians Wendell Barry and Victor Davis Hanson.

(For some powerful contemporary examples, see the essays in "Philosophers Who Believe" and "God and the Philosophers").

By Richard Harris The New Yorker, September 16, 1974 P. 31 Now that Nixon's most powerful contemporary, Pres.

Dhanananda, the last of this list, possibly figures as Agrammes, or Xandrames, in classical sources, a powerful contemporary of Alexander the Great.

As Garret told Patheos, "Rowling's 4100-page epic was the best and most powerful contemporary retelling of the gospel narrative I'd encountered".

Veronese had the skill and savvy to demonstrate his understanding of his powerful contemporaries and yet remain his own man.

This "Frankfurt-style" counterexample has proved to be quite powerful in contemporary debates about free will.

However, the 19th century's skepticism about invoking nature as a source of moral and legal norms remained powerful, and contemporary writers almost invariably talked of human rights rather than natural rights.

Although the explosion must have been very powerful, no contemporary record aside from a possible sighting by English astronomer John Flamsteed in 1680 exists of its having been observed, so the explosion may have happened behind an interstellar dust cloud.

MOSCOW — The Russian authorities on Tuesday arrested the man they suspect of shooting the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose apparent contract killing in 2006 sent a chilling message about the hazards of challenging the powerful in contemporary Russia.