Sentence examples for powerful standing from inspiring English sources

He was named Shandong province's chief of propaganda in 2007 and in the same year was elevated to the province's powerful standing committee, where he remains.

Joan Aruz refers in the exhibition's huge catalogue to "combinations of human and animal figures [which] create images of supernatural creatures," such as the immensely powerful "Standing Lioness Demon" lent by the Brooklyn Museum and the many images of bulls or bull-humans, which symbolized power and fertility.

"But the constitutional provision they're suing to enforce gives them a role in how it's carried out, and that gives them a powerful standing argument," Litman said.

He became a member of the powerful Standing Committee of the Political Bureau in 1973.

The sharifs claim direct descent from the Prophet Muhammad; their alleged blood relationship with the Prophet gives them a powerful standing in Muslim society.

Zhou was the first member of the powerful standing committee to be tried for a crime since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949.

In 2007 Li made the jump to the national CCP leadership, when he was elected to the party's all-powerful standing committee of the Political Bureau (Politburo).

Mr Wang also serves as a deputy mayor under the city's ambitious party boss, Bo Xilai, who may join the all-powerful standing committee of the Politburo this year.

Should Zhu Rongji go as planned to America on April 6th (the first prime ministerial visit in 15 years), agonised the all-powerful standing committee of the Politburo; or should he not?That the question was raised at all is a measure of the sudden slide in relations between China and America.

So who are those powerful companies standing in the way of progress?

How very true, and no one more powerful is standing in the way of that work than the man uttering those words.