Sentence examples for previously powerful from inspiring English sources

Some of them are former senators, cabinet officers or other previously powerful folks.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen the ousting of his previously powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek for crimes including faction-building and "dissolute and depraved" behaviour involving drug use, womanising and gambling, North Korean media has announced.

But the Garden State associsation is not as rabidly opposed to self-service in New Jersey as its predecessor, the previously powerful New Jersey Gas Retailers Association, which led the fight in the 1970's to ban self serve here.

The land minister, Amos Kimunya, promised a new tribunal to revoke ill-gotten titles and restore land to its rightful owners.Well and good, but this sounds like ending impunity for the previously powerful.

The terrible fate of tribes and all others who oppose Isis was explained in an Independent interview earlier this year with Sheikh Na'eem al-Gu'ood, the leader of the previously powerful Albu Nimr tribe of western and central Iraq.

The latest excruciating example came this week, as a previously powerful state senator from Brooklyn, Carl Kruger, sobbed his way through an admission of receiving bribes sufficient to have financed a shiny Bentley and a Mill Basin mansion originally built for a mob boss.

Previously, the powerful procedure, in which strands of DNA are snipped out and replaced, had been used only in dividing cells - such as those in an embryo - and scientists had struggled to apply it to non-dividing cells that make up most adult tissue, including the brain, heart, kidneys and liver.

Previously, only powerful clans within the Quraysh tribe were able to succeed to the caliphate.

Binding immunoglobulin protein (BiP) has previously shown powerful anti-inflammatory properties in the collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) model, where a single dose of BiP has proved to be both a long-term prophylactic and therapeutic.

The always-on nature of content, inspired by the Internet, is freeing consumers from the previously all-powerful schedule.

There will be a massive power vacuum previously filled by powerful and repressive central institutions.