The days of the all-powerful nation-state are long gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off The Couch] Reference

They don't see it as all-powerful, impregnable, unharmable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Yet Melted] Reference

As does harmony within the U. N.'s all-powerful Security Council.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost of Consensus] Reference

China's growth is a product of its efficient, all-powerful government.    From Wordnik.com.  [India Rising] Reference

You can't have some kind of all-powerful tsar because they all have a day job.    From Wordnik.com.  [London 2012 progress report: Will Britain deliver on Olympic promises?] Reference

He was an all-powerful, mysterious figure, but who would have wanted his body?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body Snatchers] Reference

His more ambitious goal is to decentralize the all-powerful federal government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico: Ready To Ride] Reference

The variables our study identifies are important, but they are not all-powerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Ferguson: 1, 2, 3, Many Tea Parties?: What the Massachusetts Senate Race May Say About the Fall Elections] Reference

Nor is there a "great and all-powerful Oz" to devise and implement such regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura Kodres: Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Exploring the Post-tornado Contours of the Financial System] Reference

The fact is, Senator Reid has acted like he's all-powerful and accountable to no one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Hour Roundup] Reference

We all like to believe that there's an all-knowing, all-powerful force looking after us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion: Reality Check on the Fed] Reference

The former, all-powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is doing time in prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press Didn't Do It] Reference

He boasts about his 14 years as the all-powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosty's Difficult Winter] Reference

So you can see that Alan Greenspan isn't the all-powerful free agent many people think him to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Mortgage Rates Aren't Falling] Reference

And Japan's all-powerful medical lobby, the Japan Medical Association, staunchly defends the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healing Medicine] Reference

Some people believe there's an all-powerful person named Alan Greenspan, who made interest rates rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myths Of Oz] Reference

But, look, we're not proposing to make the Fed the all-powerful overseer of the entire financial system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timothy Geithner] Reference

Some of the women, teenagers fresh out of high school, were intimidated by all-powerful drill instructors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question Of Consent] Reference

The first is that they point out that words are not all-powerful in shaping thought, but that's no surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right is Right ... Except for Lefties] Reference

Clinton has already shown some willingness to take on vested interests, such as the all-powerful teachers unions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Bull Campaign] Reference

Then the all-powerful liberal media will rediscover him, he says, and "it'll get more interesting than I can stand.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Body' Slams His Party] Reference

Poch PeraltaManila, PhilippinesNever underestimate the true intention and the vested interest of the all-powerful Vladimir Putin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Russia’s Power Play] Reference

Meanwhile, Hyundai's all-powerful "aristocratic union" has gone on strike every year except one since it was established in 1987.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strike Too Many] Reference

When I came here in the early 1960s, it was still the era of the all-powerful committee chairman and the ruling leadership junta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everyone Vs. Congress] Reference

You can argue that the burdens and benefits should be greater, but if the rich were all-powerful, their taxes would be much lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lobbying Is Democracy in Action] Reference

At a distance, I thought myself adapted to live in this all-powerful world; I even desired it, led by a cherished hope of my heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

However, there's an awful lot of other candidates who would run, especially now that the all-powerful Mayor Daley is out of the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Mayor Daley Won't Seek Re-Election] Reference

Whether or not the cases are justified, they have severely undermined the po litical strength of Turkey's once all-powerful military.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkey, Military Agree on Command] Reference

But such influences are not all-powerful, and only within limits can we bend other wills to follow a course prescribed for them by our own.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

And Turkey's once all-powerful military issued a strong condemnation of Gul's nomination, warning that the "core values of the republic" were under threat.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Army In Retreat] Reference

DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, THE CHAIRMAN of the all-powerful House Ways and Means Committee, recently confided to a friend that his stomach feels like hamburger meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rostenkowski's Choice] Reference

There must be times when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke feels like the Wizard of Oz — someone who's supposed to be all-powerful but who's actually just an ordinary guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Inflation] Reference