powerfully

powerful | American Dictionary

powerful
adjective
us/ˈpɑʊ·ər·fəl/

powerfuladjective (STRONG)

strong:
The picture quality is bad because the TV signal isn’t powerful enough.
Things that are powerful have a strong effect:
a powerful drug

powerfuladjective (CONTROLLING)

having a lot of power:
He’s in a powerful position as an adviser of the president.

Examples of powerful

powerful
However, they soon were forced to abandon these plans after running into a powerful barrage of criticism.
The richest and most powerful citizens never returned.
At the same time, stressed syllables are more 'powerful' than unstressed ones.
There is now powerful experimental evidence that this tends to promote and maintain cooperation.
Unlike most social programs, government health insurance involves the purchase of services from a clearly defined and often extremely powerful profession.
However, the use of such a powerful intervention may inhibit visits for milder diseases, possibly resulting in aggravation of the disease.
Key informants, intentionally or otherwise, had a powerful role in determining who took part, why they took part, and on the dynamics of their involvement.
The body, its demarcation and differentiation, is a regulatory ideal whose materialisation takes place through certain highly regulated, powerful cultural practices.
Suppose the foreign exchange and trade reforms could be achieved first-e. g., if powerful domestic forces delayed the raising of energy prices.
This demonstrated a powerful belief in liberalisation in an industry whose special network characteristics have made it appear the most natural of natural monopolies.
As one can see, the concept of unique past is a powerful one, and hence somewhat suspect.
Rather, we consider business as an important and potentially powerful actor in policy making, but not the sole powerful actor.
Additionally, however, these structures would have made powerful symbolic statements about royal power and authority.
As a result the mind is alert, but because it is demodulated and driven by powerful internal stimuli, it becomes both hallucinatory and unfocused.
Most of the vessels were built from welded steel, not riveted, and were equipped with powerful diesel engines.
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