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nounHiram, 1805–73, U.S. sculptor. Words nearby Powerspower plant, power play, power point, power politics, power press, Powers, power saw, power series, power set, power-sharing, power shovel Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for PowersThis is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics. Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’|Marlow Stern|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST Indeed, it may never unless Western powers start raising the political stakes. U.S. Ally Qatar Shelters Jihadi Moneymen|Jamie Dettmer|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST Needless to say, this does not enamor her to the powers that be in Cameroon. The Straight Hero of Cameroon’s Gays|Jay Michaelson|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST They also used the powers of their separate agencies to cite waste haulers for spilling sludge along roadways. Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If I were the powers that be, it would not have taken me three days to call the National Guard. ‘Why Have I Lost Control?’: Cory Booker in ’92 on Rodney King Echoes Ferguson|Cory Booker|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST He altogether doubted his own powers to perform satisfactorily the task before him. An Eye for an Eye|Anthony Trollope When the powers are not used along the line of their strength they become demoralized, weakened, deteriorated. How to Succeed|Orison Swett Marden Yet it was the beginning of his great career, both as to a consciousness of his own powers and in attracting the public attention. Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII|John Lord Now, if we consider that water raised to 212° is boiling, we shall be as much astonished at their powers of enduring heat as cold. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852|Various Even the powers of magic were tried in vain to effect his cure. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1|William Walton
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