Sentence examples for the third most powerful from inspiring English sources

A8 NEW YORK/REGION B1-7 Third-Party Outsiders Are Now Power Brokers The Independence Party of New York has emerged as the third most powerful vote-getter in many state and local races and is expected to endorse the re-election bid of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

"Take a look at Nancy Pelosi, the third most powerful woman" in the United States.

In 2002, the industry publication Modern Healthcare listed him as the third most powerful person in American health care.

As Mr. Schumer could become Senate majority leader, and therefore the third most powerful Democrat in the nation, such militancy struck others as daft.

At just 39, Mr. Silver is the third most powerful man in the National Basketball Association, behind only Commissioner David Stern and the deputy commissioner, Russ Granik.

Mr. Kudrin is considered the third most powerful figure in the Kremlin, after Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin and President Dmitri A. Medvedev, and is a close ally of Mr. Putin.

After Cromwell's execution, Norfolk gained power and himself became the second most powerful Englishman.

Time magazine called him the second most powerful man in the White House.

Robert Kennedy, as John's attorney general, was the second most powerful man in the country.

British passports have been ranked the fourth most powerful passports in the world.

Bishops, which move any number of unobstructed squares diagonally, are the second most powerful starting pieces.