Sentence examples for powerful umbrella from inspiring English sources

Those relationships provided Al Qaeda with a powerful umbrella of protection, and we had to sever that.

The disability rights lobby is better organised than ever, with groups for each disability as well as more powerful umbrella bodies.

He added that buy-to-let landlords often lacked the experience and finances to defend their legal rights, and Property118 Action Group Limited "will offer them a unique and powerful umbrella at a very reasonable price".

Asa'ib ahl al-Haq, one of the most powerful members of the umbrella group, hinted that it might stand its members down in protest at the de facto alliance with a sworn foe.

And besides providing supporters a powerful brand under whose umbrella they could gather, the overarching Obama image was a wonderful tool for recruiting friends, neighbors and family.

It is disconcerting that Mitchell's antigovernment crusade has brought her under the support of the power structure; the umbrella organization for which she has worked, Americans Back in Charge, has been backed financially by powerful conservative foundations.

Rain had fallen in sheets all morning, and powerful wind gusts challenged umbrellas.

He works under the umbrella of the powerful agent Arn Tellem's Wasserman Media Group.

At the weekend, an umbrella group of powerful Qom-based ayatollahs denounced proponents of a "culture of liberalism", and attacked reformers for their attempts to depict the "bankruptcy of religious government".

At the same time, she uses their stories to explore many of the same questions she explicated so masterfully in "The Last Life" — questions about how an individual hammers out an identity of his or her own under the umbrella of a powerful family, questions about the ways in which people mythologize their own lives and the lives of those they love.

The Times's investigation — based on thousands of pages of government records, court papers and securities filings, as well as interviews with borrowers, regulators and executives — pieced together how these seemingly disparate companies fall under the umbrella of one powerful private equity firm.