That obsession with politics grew until the most powerful and charismatic Medici of all, Lorenzo the Magnificent, let the bank decay while he concentrated on running the Florentine state.
Until the most powerful man in America is held responsible for his reported abusive treatment toward women, he will remain the most potent and prominent reminder to men that if you are powerful enough, you, too can grab women by their genitalia and get away with it.
Everything was going swimmingly until Mr. Silver, the most powerful Democrat in the State Legislature, turned around to ride back to his hotel and came across a treacherous pothole.
A better answer came from Alan Greenspan, until recently the most powerful economist on the planet, who went to Capitol Hill and confessed to a "flaw" in his model of the world.
The party of Disraeli, Churchill and Thatcher and until recently the most powerful political force in all of Europe, the Conservatives are not only yet to recover from two consecutive losses to Labor, they face the likelihood of defeat in the next vote two years from now.
Until the 1980s, the most powerful magnets available were those made from an alloy containing samarium and cobalt.
Sifting data from collisions of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab's Tevatron, which until last winter was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons.
It may take a few years until you have the most powerful ship.
The most powerful constitutional power was imperium.
"Here we have an admitted child molester, until recently one of the most powerful officials in the Belgian Catholic Church, brazenly blaming his young victims for his twisted crimes".
On Tuesday, April 4th, Tom DeLay said he would retire from politics, as investigations into possible corruption crept uncomfortably close.Mr DeLay was, until recently, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
