Never before have so many electoral powerhouses held so many contests simultaneously.
The Washington media powerhouse Tammy Haddad held hands with Barbra Streisand, as they strolled through the marble foyer overflowing with white and pink roses.
Blaming Mr. Ferriero for party problems certainly has an ironic element to it, since, in his 10 years as chairman, he has remade the party into a powerhouse that holds every countywide seat but the clerk's office.
A German sentiment survey on Thursday was below forecast but still suggested Europe's powerhouse is holding up well.
But Osborne's northern powerhouse at least held out the promise of Tory jam tomorrow for the undernourished north.
Elections to the new post, which will have enhanced powers over health, transport and economic policy as part of George Osborne's "northern powerhouse", will be held next May.
They were proof as well, some said, that Steubenville High School's powerhouse football team held too much sway over other teenagers, who documented and traded pictures of the assault while doing little or nothing to protect the girl.
Meanwhile, the minister for the northern powerhouse, James Wharton – who held on to his marginal Stockton South seat in the general election – was keeping stumm, referring media requests to the Department for Transport and ignoring tweets about what it all meant for his ministerial empire.
Better to buy the long-term powerhouses and hold on.
Connecticut is certainly no corn-growing powerhouse, but it holds a hallowed place in American corn history.
Catalonia, the restive northeastern region that is Spain's economic powerhouse, attempted to hold an independence referendum on Sunday.
