A painful smile crossed the once-powerful figure's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colors of Chaos]

Sam Gwynne expanded on his view of this once-powerful tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best-Selling Book Tells Story Of Fierce Comanches] Reference

The once-powerful Trail Blazers went meekly into what should be.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Basketball Association - Lakers vs. Trail Blazers] Reference

Illness has left him frail and weakened his once-powerful voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2005] Reference

The once-powerful foretop captain began to weep into his filthy hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

CNN – A once-powerful ally of the president now appears to be powerless.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Special investigation: End of ACORN?] Reference

S and other once-powerful sugar plantations are on one side of the dispute over water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maui's Water Battle] Reference

But it's also for Russians underlined the dilapidated state of their once-powerful Navy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2005] Reference

Last year, we watched the once-powerful Seattle P-I and the Rocky Mountain News die, sadly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Mann: E&P's Death Shows How Badly Newspapers Are Hurting] Reference

He is bare-chested and his once-powerful muscles saggingly expose a man well past his prime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony and Cleopatra – review] Reference

Iraq's once-powerful oil industry is still a point of nationalistic pride among most Iraqis.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Digs In to Guard Iraq Oil Exports] Reference

I now understand how it is that a once-powerful company like Kmart could tumble into bankruptcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [From On High] Reference

An anti-gay crusader from the pulpit, the once-powerful evangelist is now trying to rebuild his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference

The blanched skeletons of once-powerful coursers kicked futilely at the water that dragged them down.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

Four former lobbyists of the PMA Group, a once-powerful lobbying shop, also chipped in to elect Critz.    From Wordnik.com.  [PMA trying to retain lease on PA-12? | RedState] Reference

But life in Scranton is more nuanced than the cliché of a once-powerful industrial center in decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind a Blue-Collar Cliché] Reference

She tasted the faint echo of Maulkin's once-powerful toxins, and the less-disciplined acids of Sessurea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Ship]

It was this latter insignificant alteration that would make the once-powerful bull pliable and ineffective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico]

HAMMER: And those voting problems we keep reading about started haunting once-powerful voter - Homer Simpson.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2008] Reference

While the once-powerful Zeidan is now in exile in Jordan, Zarqawi has now supplanted him as the man in charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2006] Reference

Your once-powerful armies shall continue to taste defeat at the hands of vastly poorly-armed& shoeless warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation that Pissed-Off God] Reference

Finally, the last group swept over and was destroyed by the suicidal remnants of the once-powerful fighter force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hell Wings Over Manhattan]

His once-powerful party however, faces the prospect of losing about six of its 26 seats in the 120-member Knesset.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Can Still Have Peace'] Reference

There was a special gleefulness among much of the public in seeing once-powerful titans fall, as many of them did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Railing Against the Rich: A Great American Tradition] Reference

Both men are a more appropriate height and both of them could be made up to look like once-powerful men gone to fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [7 ft actor rumored to be auditioning for Thrones] Reference

Mapfumo has paid a high price for his principles, and his once-powerful voice has been all but muted in the process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Different Musical Takes on Politics in Zimbabwe] Reference

Take as an instance, the Efik race, or people of Old Calabar, some 6,000 wretched remnants of a once-powerful tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

Matafleur soared into him with all the force of her once-powerful body, striking him like a spear hurled by the gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Autumn Twilight]

He is the once-powerful leader of a band of six surviving brothers, one of whom is likely to succeed him as crown prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saudi Cabinet Shake-Up Portends Real Reform] Reference

Many trace the decline of public demonstrations to the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher broke up the once-powerful unions here.    From Wordnik.com.  [A protest against tuition hikes becomes a generational phenomenon in Britain] Reference

United Democratic Movement's Gerhard Koornhof - have complained the once-powerful and respected committee has lost its bite.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Heroes fans holding out hope for a miniseries or movie to wrap up the once-powerful NBC drama might want to stop reading now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is the Heroes Wrap-Up Movie Dead?] Reference

Several Democratic lawmakers took steps to distance themselves from the once-powerful former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panel Begins Hearings on Rangel] Reference

Mary Anastasia O'Grady, who writes the "Americas" column, talks with Kelsey Hubbard about how the once-powerful guerrilla group was duped.    From Wordnik.com.  [FARC's 'Human Rights' Friends] Reference

For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR MARCH 7TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews] Reference

Bubbles still resides in the blue-collar Pennsylvania steel town of Lehigh, a company town on the skids since once-powerful Lehigh Steel is now a poor shadow of its former self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

As the once-powerful Soviet Union descends into social and economic collapse, a group of hard-line Communists has devised a strategy to return their country to its former glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primary Target: Summary and book reviews of Primary Target by Joe Weber.] Reference