"Olivias are powerful, power house women," one dude said.
By A.D. 100, heads of powerful houses from Rome to Byzantium had signet rings.
Things are getting bigger, and more powerful: houses, cars, furniture... toothbrushes.
Mr Abe's ruling coalition, of the LDP and New Komeito, a Buddhist-supported party, needed 63 seats to win back control of the powerful house.
The collapse of the market in 1974 hastened their demise, bringing down some of the most powerful houses, including the Ginestets and the Cruses.
This is now reduced in the National Assembly the lower, and more powerful, house of France's parliament to 140 Socialists, seven members of the Radical Party of the Left, three Greens, 21 Communists and seven left-wingers with no party affiliation.
Controlling these costs is a goal for Republicans on the powerful House-Senate committee on deficit reduction, whose proposals are supposed to receive up-or-down votes in both chambers before the end of the year.
But the governor's race this year is a tossup, in part because of scandals involving state Republicans, including the recent resignation of the powerful house speaker, Glenn Richardson, after his attempted suicide and allegations of an affair with a lobbyist.
If you have not watched the show or read the books, you probably won't follow the allusions to current affairs; if you have, you may likely disagree with them.** House Lannister = Saudi Arabia The wealthiest and most powerful house in Westeros, the Lannisters are kingmakers.
In voting on Sunday, LDP captured control of the legislature's lower, more powerful house from the Democratic Party of Japan.
