adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deep/strong/powerful instinct
▪ He bent down, obeying a deep instinct to protect himself from danger.
a great/powerful nation
▪ The United States is the most powerful nation in the world.
a hard/powerful punch
▪ My stomach took a couple of hard punches.
a large/powerful economy
▪ the world’s two most powerful economies
a powerful explosion
▪ The powerful explosion was heard from Portland, Maine to Albany, New York.
a powerful metaphor (=one that works very well)
▪ His election campaign used the powerful metaphor of ‘building a bridge to the next century’.
a powerful myth (=that has a lot of influence on people)
▪ There is a powerful myth that crime has increased – in fact there was much more crime 100 years ago.
a powerful position
▪ Many leaders from that period are still in powerful positions in government.
a powerful speech (=having a strong effect on people's opinions)
▪ He gave a powerful speech calling for unity.
a powerful/potent reminder
▪ The soldiers' deaths are a powerful reminder of the price we pay for freedom.
a strong/powerful incentive
▪ The possibility of acquiring wealth acts as a strong incentive in many people's lives.
a strong/powerful influence
▪ The press can have a powerful influence on the way people vote.
big/powerful
▪ The newer model has a more powerful engine.
economically powerful (=rich and powerful)
▪ economically powerful countries like the US
immensely powerful/strong/important etc
▪ Nationalism is an immensely powerful force.
powerful (=having a very strong effect on someone)
▪ Grief is a very powerful emotion.
powerful
▪ His arms were folded across his powerful chest.
powerful (=with a lot of force)
▪ Flights were cancelled after a powerful earthquake shook the northwest of the country.
profound/powerful (=very big, in a way that changes someone or something significantly )
▪ My father’s death had a profound effect on me.
strong/powerful magic
▪ Her fingers moved to make the sign that protected against strong magic.
strong/powerful
▪ He had powerful shoulders and a thick neck.
strong/powerful
▪ The urge was too strong to resist.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ It's more powerful than the regular injection models, but not quite as powerful as the full-blown turbos.
▪ The Fokker was as powerful as any plane of its day.
▪ And his hunger, as he kissed her, seemed as powerful as her own.
▪ But what is important here is diet may be as powerful as taking medication.
▪ Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself.
▪ Davis' testimony did not turn out to be as powerful as Jones had expected.
▪ Nevertheless, Ramsay's consummate sense of pictorial design remains as powerful as ever.
extremely
▪ Here Kasparov should have sealed 41 c8 when the threats of g3 and g4 would be extremely powerful.
▪ But soon after lunar sunrise, it emitted an extremely powerful blast of radio energy.
▪ Peppermint, for example, is extremely powerful, whereas sandalwood is very mild.
▪ Since smiling is an extremely powerful reinforcer, this visual interaction is important in bringing about the closeness of parent and child.
▪ His key evolutionary innovation was separating the heating chamber from the cooling chamber; this made his engine extremely powerful.
▪ Britain's negotiating position is thus extremely powerful.
▪ Yet such desires are extremely powerful, and for most people-especially non-philosophers-quite hard to control.
immensely
▪ The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
▪ Sometimes I would feel immensely powerful, feel that I, single-handedly, might change the course of Woolf scholarship.
▪ But there still remained immensely powerful ministers who led the fight for increased public investment and spending measures to cut unemployment.
▪ The Savoyards also made Turin an immensely powerful fortress.
▪ He was about 5 foot 10 inches tall but immensely powerful.
▪ Jack was never flurried, his cool, unruffled play was a hallmark of his game, along with some immensely powerful clearances.
▪ But the controls are complex because the machine is immensely powerful.
▪ Taken together, the new biotechnologies and the pending scientific insights will be immensely powerful.
less
▪ The economically less powerful sections of the middle classes were growing fast both in numbers and in political consciousness.
▪ But smaller, less powerful teams like this one are more vulnerable to the capriciousness of the games.
▪ If I use unleaded will my engine be less powerful?
▪ They were so-named two centuries ago because they resembled planets when viewed through the much less powerful telescopes of the time.
▪ The flavours of both cheeses are less powerful than the bouquets.
▪ ChemWindow Classic is a simpler version of the program recommended to users who have less powerful systems.
▪ This is not because the family had become less powerful.
▪ The judges may have seen him as less powerful than he once was.
more
▪ Some are nothing more than ethereal vapours, others are more powerful, more evident.
▪ Even more powerful was the impact of television.
▪ Indiscrimate roadside spraying using more powerful weedkillers has been banned because the chemicals found their way into water supplies.
▪ In some ways, this can be an advantage because it makes the programs more powerful.
▪ In the following year they were replaced by five more powerful turbines and a larger steam engine.
▪ And they could be a more powerful and intrusive problem than any you encountered in the corporate infighting of your previous job.
▪ Goering had noted many times before that the fatter and more powerful he got, the more attractive women found him.
▪ We can get away with this because we are so prosperous, so secure and so much more powerful than everyone else.
most
▪ Or so predicts Hermes, one of the City's most powerful institutions with more than £50 billion to spend.
▪ The next most powerful people are successful older men.
▪ It has one of the most powerful engines of its type in the world.
▪ Membership in the United Nations' most powerful body includes 10 rotating and five permanent members.
▪ The most powerful Lord of the Dark Ireland.
▪ The most powerful reinforcer is performance.
▪ Before very long he becomes the leader of one of the most powerful teenage gangs in Brooklyn.
▪ But the most powerful aspect of Englerization is welfare reform.
so
▪ He seemed so powerful at the time.
▪ The wind off the beach was so powerful it was difficult to hold the Land-Rover in lane.
▪ I have to take it a little at a time, it is so powerful.
▪ At no other time was the pulse of prayer so powerful in his parish.
▪ Gianni Bugno, so powerful in the hills and the current world road champion, must be among the favourites.
▪ But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.
▪ When a woman's voice answered she had to hang up, her anger was so powerful.
▪ The stench is so powerful that you feel - and sometimes are - violently sick.
too
▪ Third placed Hawarden Park should be too powerful at home for bottom of the table Chirk.
▪ Self-interest is just too powerful, and the only thing that can contain it is competition.
▪ The shrimp growers are too powerful to be touched.
▪ Others saw the new media as too powerful and pervasive to be left entirely uncontrolled and unregulated by government.
▪ Our feelings seem almost too powerful, the sort that burn themselves out.
▪ But the Lancastrian army proved too powerful, and after a brave fight the defences were breached.
▪ Is that too powerful a word for the positive experiences of old age?
▪ In 1996 Suharto attempted to have her ousted because he feared that she was becoming too powerful.
very
▪ By contrast, we have very powerful approaches to understanding individual differences within groups.
▪ Radar mapping is carried out by using a very powerful radar transmitter to send bursts of radar power at the target.
▪ You need a very powerful microscope if you are to see the fundamental crystal structure of our environment.
▪ We have beaten a very powerful conservative, Sen.
▪ The book is a very powerful communication on ritual abuse and its effects.
▪ Such a feeling would be very powerful and could lead to the intense craving observed among alcoholics.
▪ The cement is very powerful and will not be removed by hot water, soaps, or detergents.
▪ Starting with nothing, he has become very, very rich and very, very famous, and very, very powerful.
■ NOUN
argument
▪ There is a powerful argument for saying that, in general, it should be subject to the rules of administrative law.
▪ Despite these powerful arguments against mutual funds, there are still reasons why it makes sense for ordinary investors to own them.
▪ One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s.
▪ These were certainly powerful arguments for sending the coach back, but they did not prevail.
▪ A powerful argument for causation could be the effect of treatment interventions.
▪ It is a powerful argument, as was demonstrated by the heated responses it provoked.
▪ Which might be a powerful argument for his essential innocence.
▪ While those are powerful arguments, more speed, extra refinement and sharper handling would put it right on the pace.
computer
▪ Traditionally, one powerful computer is used as a dedicated server using all its power and memory to run the network.
▪ The program requires a powerful computer.
▪ Specialist image analysis equipment for light and electron microscope images also require interfacing with powerful computers.
▪ The network focuses on a single application: networking powerful computers to help doctors plan radiation therapy for cancer treatment.
▪ And character recognition is relatively slow and prone to errors even on powerful computers.
▪ You can simulate them on a very powerful computer.
▪ If you're only chatting it text, you won't need a particularly fast connection, nor a powerful computer.
▪ In fact, experienced users with powerful computers will find they can run several of these tasks at the same time.
force
▪ They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.
▪ The buildup on income over a long period is a powerful force.
▪ Drama can be a powerful force for motivating and enhancing work in every curriculum area.
▪ Religion, combined with practical help, can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
▪ The present account concerns that middle stratum and how its views might relate to wider and more powerful forces of society.
▪ Computers, and the underlying communications network that supports them, have been a powerful force for such standardization.
▪ As an ally, Nails was a powerful force.
▪ And in the long run the friendships formed in these social situations can be a powerful force in decision making.
influence
▪ The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
▪ In naturally occurring decision environments, interactions between situational demands and self-referent factors can exert a powerful influence on the decision-making process.
▪ The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians.
▪ In the coming millennium, Dahl predicted, new telecommunications technology will exert a powerful influence for change on the democratic process.
▪ Children think in black and white, good and bad, and the comic has a powerful influence on shaping attitudes.
▪ Room temperature exerted a powerful influence on the going rate of any timekeeper.
▪ At every stage in the communication process we can detect the powerful influence of culture.
▪ Peer pressure among journalists also can have a powerful influence on improving performance.
man
▪ He was a very powerful man.
▪ The Sporting News recently had the nerve to name Woods the most powerful man in all of sports.
▪ She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly.
▪ He impressed me as a physically powerful man operating for the moment under great restraint.
▪ He was by now a very powerful man and had created jealousy and resentment.
▪ Frankly, in our state, they bullied one of the most powerful men in the state.
▪ His first experience of the conflict between two powerful men, tossing between them the idea of war.
▪ Throughout history powerful men have usually had more than one mate each, even if they have had only one legitimate wife.
position
▪ Many party leaders from that period are still in powerful positions in government.
▪ Over the years they have carved out a powerful position within the town's antique trade.
▪ They build and arm a huge city, and achieve a powerful position.
▪ The real menace is the right shoulder, which at the top of the backswing adopts a potentially powerful position.
▪ No child should be put in the powerful position of having to tell tales on another child.
▪ We send in negative data on our peers - those who are competing with us for more powerful positions.
▪ Gen Khan was given command of the Lahore corps, his first corps command and still a powerful position.
▪ He was in a powerful position to become the single successor, but his luck did not hold.
reason
▪ This is one very powerful reason why I am writing this chapter.
▪ Those are two powerful reasons why every text-based and still-picture-based interactive experiment like videotext has failed in the past.
▪ There are, in fact, other powerful reasons for making jojoba a universal substitute for whale oil.
▪ This alone is a powerful reason why one new religion should be allowed to develop to replace all the old.
▪ It was also due to a barbaric delight in high-sounding verbiage, and probably this was the most powerful reason for its use.
▪ Both sides have powerful reasons to hold fast to their traditional positions.
▪ To transfer this judgment of seriousness into desirable legal responses is no easy matter, however, for two powerful reasons.
voice
▪ The powerful voices of the Fabians, where the Webbs proved insistent campaigners, urged State intervention on a new scale.
▪ These powerful voices have far more allegiance to right-wing causes then they do to Republican leaders.
▪ Many of them reiterate the plea for a high profile personality to present a powerful voice on behalf of the Institute and its members.
▪ The alternative fan networks continue to provide an articulate and powerful voice for supporters.
▪ The lessons in singing and elocution had left her with a pretty powerful voice.
▪ A powerful voice has been the influential panel of experts, led by Norman Augustine of Martin Marietta.
▪ With sons the family would be a powerful voice in village politics.
weapon
▪ Fear is one of the Dark Lord's most powerful weapons yet some of his army are defeated by it.
▪ Procrastination or partial responses are powerful weapons.
▪ New powers to refuse wastes and revoke licences are potentially powerful weapons in controlling the movement and safe disposal of wastes.
▪ And designing and implementing new mercantile processes is the most powerful weapon available to wage that war effectively.
▪ Manipulation People who manipulate use guilt and blame-they are powerful weapons to get people to do something.
▪ Fear is proving a powerful weapon for keeping such places quiet.
▪ It is a powerful weapon of persuasion.
▪ At the same time, exposure in the press is a powerful weapon against the abuse of authority and wrong doing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a powerful bomb
▪ a powerful civil rights group
▪ a powerful story of love and forgiveness.
▪ Ammonia has a very powerful, distinctive smell.
▪ Berlusconi was the owner of a powerful media empire.
▪ He was a tall man with a powerful physique.
▪ Her desire to hit him was so powerful that she had to force herself to leave the room at once.
▪ I was impressed with Dinsmore's powerful command of language.
▪ Jealousy is a very powerful emotion.
▪ John held her in his powerful arms.
▪ Nigeria is the most powerful and populous nation in black Africa.
▪ one of the most powerful men in US politics
▪ Parliament had become more powerful than the King.
▪ Ten of the world's most powerful men met to discuss trade barriers.
▪ The powerful smell of cabbage, sardines, and body odor filled the train.
▪ The drug is a thousand times more powerful than LSD.
▪ The Steelers' powerful offense has scored over 25 points a game.
▪ There was a powerful smell coming from the laundry basket.
▪ This Civic is more powerful than the last model.
▪ Tyson landed a powerful left hook on Doulgas' chin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even notoriously conservative newspaper publishers recognize that the Web is a radical and powerful publishing medium.
▪ He had gone for ever, to be replaced by the man she had really married, the ambitious and powerful Damian Flint.
▪ In many ways the most powerful impetus to greater concentrations came from the state.
▪ Looking around the modern world, she was not encouraged; powerful men are often childless.
▪ MultiGen, meantime, has been made more powerful through a number of virtual reality options.
▪ The difficulty was partly political; the favoured regions, London notably, had powerful friends in the major teaching hospitals.
▪ The hospital subsequently discovered that her death was the result of a massive overdose of a powerful anticancer drug.
▪ The recent dramatic growth of urban areas has been one powerful catalyst for change.