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Meanings of powerful in English
Spanish
poderoso Having great power or force or potency or effect.
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Examples for "forceful"
Examples for "forceful"
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The most common type of physical abuse was forceful downward abdominal pressure.
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Unanimity in the mind is the primary factor in a forceful life.
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But a number of other business leaders derided it in forceful terms.
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Justice Elena Kagan offered the most forceful opposition to Marotta's proposed test.
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Certainly he is forceful and prone to interfere in other ministers' portfolios.
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Pyrethroid tolerance was not associated with a significant increase of knock-down times.
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However, miR-378 knock-down promoted these processes and enhanced the expression of vimentin.
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Food and drink was being sold in the shops at knock-down prices.
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In fact we even had one of our inevitable knock-down logistical fights.
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Photo: Andrew Burr After fighting knock-down winds and sub-freezing temperatures on Mt.
Usage of powerful in English
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I believe those who are most powerful use their power for good.
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Skelos is the second powerful legislative leader to stand trial this year.
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Iran is more powerful today than if Saddam been left in power.
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For that to actually happen, powerful countries need to be held accountable.
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Vaccines are probably the most powerful public health intervention available to us.
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A new Europe, he thought ironically, a powerful federation of dynamic states.
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However, researchers said that vaccines could prove more powerful than natural immunity.
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The powerful centre presents a clear and present danger to Ireland's hopes.
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They need more powerful incentives to work with people when it's possible.
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In those days, whatever powerful people said and did was considered news.
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NMR methods are therefore powerful aids to understanding plant metabolism and physiology.
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Men who are truly powerful, however, view threats as yet another vulnerability.
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Europeans want mainly to balance relations between powerful West and rising East.
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A weak government is an easy target when powerful groups come calling.
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Eleven years ago Oliver Stone made a powerful motion picture called JFK.
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Europe is a powerful enough bloc to implement such a radical programme.
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