powerful
Ms King spoke very powerfully about that yesterday.
It was a powerfully moving visit to the lost world of turn-of-the-century ghetto life.
Natural events like this remind us powerfully that life is a fragile thing.
It is a powerfully symbolic meeting.
I'm amazed at how powerfully my child's small fingers can squeeze mine.
Scientists believe that if the volcano erupts powerfully, lava will probably shoot straight up into the air.
That means you need to learn to exhale powerfully, which takes strong abdominal muscles.

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powerfully
His findings show powerfully that poverty can structure the individual life course and generational relationships across time.
I would suggest that this is achieved even more powerfully by the silence that results from the conspicuous textual absence of the two lyrics.
The subsequent maintenance of ' the habit' is partly reflected in a nostalgic ability to powerfully recall first/early purchases.
That aura emanated only slightly from the poetry, and more powerfully from the gendered nature of critics' acclaim.
But they are also ones which, in the right circumstances, can feed powerfully into a broadly post-productivist vision.
We have worked for many years together and realized, over time, that you can use sound as powerfully as visual information or acting.
My powerfully built companion was half my age.
However, we are also powerfully persuaded by ideas which are hard to reconcile with it.
These have been powerfully associated not just with high spending but with successes in economic performance, income distribution, health, and environmental protection.
The book reviewed here powerfully undermines such stereotypes by 'describing it as it is,' through the words and experiences of drug users themselves.
A sense of straining to resist an inevitable fall is powerfully evoked.
The primary discourse in both is powerfully ironical; but, on occasion, another type of belief-of a very different tone and temper-crosses it, resounds through it.
It powerfully guides the questions that are asked as well as how obtained findings are interpreted.
Combining courtroom ethnography, discourse analysis and matched-guise experiments, the author powerfully rejects the popular view that interpreters do not affect legal proceedings.
As hypothesized, the currency crisis also powerfully eroded the prime minister's credibility with the electorate, producing a 17-18 point decrease in his performance rating.
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