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"Everybody knows we are meeting with the Americans, and they ask what we did and if we talked about prisoners," said Sheik Mahmoud al-Nada, leader of the powerful Nassari tribe from Uja, Saddam's birthplace, just outside Tikrit.

Fortune magazine ranks Stronach among the world's most powerful businesswomen.

It is powerfully anti-idealizing.

A year later, Congress faced down the powerful American Medical Association (and well-heeled physicians in their districts and states) and approved Medicare.

Microscopic glass beads wearing coats identical to the outer membrane of a cell provide a powerful assay for proteins that bind to cell membranes, such as protein drugs or drug candidates, according to chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

In their moment of total defeat, Nicias urges his troops to place their trust in “hope,” “fortune,” and the gods—the very things that the Melians, facing obliteration at the hands of a vastly more powerful enemy, had trusted in, to the derisive amusement of the Athenians during the Melian debate.

For investors 2003 is a powerful reminder that the emotion of the day is a map of where you have been not where you are going.

Brilliant as he is, spirited and resourceful as his people are, his endless rule seemed like some powerful vine wrapping its roots around the country and, while defending it from the elements, choking its natural growth.

A powerful deterrent to future corporate misdeeds, some investors say, could come in the form of jail terms for some of the executives scheduled to come to trial shortly.

The performers open folding chairs and set them down with a decisive, carefully aimed bang that expresses martial resolve as powerfully as any words.

But as you get to know him it becomes apparent that this massive, powerful, potent (he has seven children scattered round the world, aged 6 to 34) and vocally intimidating man is someone who has spent his life confronting insecurities.

Strong job creation has been the missing element in the powerful U.S. economic rebound that became evident late last year, and it's been a very important absence indeed.

The impact of such changes takes months to work its way into an economy, but experience shows that the impact can be powerful.

The room is not large, so the effect is quite powerful and not at all unpleasant.

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