One powerful force is the use of language to tell stories.

If she does, she will be Asia s most powerful woman, perhaps the most powerful in the world, at the end of next year.

Britain was never as dominant as the US is today.

Nevertheless, Queen Margaret was a powerful force in the world of politics.

By contrast, Japan has remained a fully pacifist economic power.

There are some estimates that the Medici family were the wealthiest family in Europe for a time.

Today, although Mao's socialist economy is shrinking, his spy networks remain as potent as ever.

Indeed, it will not be nearly as powerful as the old Soviet Union.

Now it's not enough just to tell a story that's powerful but people need to experience the story.

Israel is an immensely powerful country freer, richer, and better armed than all its neighbors.

FIFA is just the richest, most powerful, most global milk cow of all.

BEIRUT The future of Hezbollah, Lebanon s powerful Shia political and paramilitary organization, has never looked more uncertain.

At the heart of the new strategy is Bush s decision to take the fight directly to Iraq s most powerful militia, the Mahdi Army.

America, as the most powerful and ethical country in the world, has a unique responsibility to perform.

According to one of her biographers Mark Strage, Catherine was the most powerful woman in sixteenth century Europe.

Emigration is at historic highs, and a new rebel force has appeared in the form of an aggressive and potent rightwing paramilitary army.

Based on my year long research on Egyptian security sector reform, this faction is already the most powerful.

Not everyone subscribed to this theory, but it was the West's strongest political force for several decades. Christian Democrats, and even conservative parties, adopted its tenets.

Deng Xiaoping, at that time the paramount leader, and Chen Yun, another representative of the powerful Old Guard, were furious at this result.

We are not witnessing a Copernican revision of the orbits of global diplomacy. For, although a world without treaties and institutions would hurt most other countries more, it would hurt the mighty US as well.

For, although a world without treaties and institutions would hurt most other countries more, it would hurt the mighty US as well.

Together with his close advisor, Waleran de Beaumont, Stephen took firm steps to defend his rule, including arresting a powerful family of bishops.

Nevertheless, the US is likely to remain the world s preponderant power even after it extricates itself from Iraq.

But the break up, a decade later, of Standard Oil perhaps the most powerful company in the history of the world to that date was seen by mainstream opinion as completely reasonable.

While the US remains the world s most powerful single country, it cannot maintain, much less expand, international peace and prosperity on its own.

But mixed with America s moral and economic concerns were large measures of condescension and arrogance, which arose from seeing China as a poor, benighted land in need of rescue. For a proud and once powerful land such as China, such noblesse oblige was painful to accept and created lasting reservoirs of resentment.

While the army has always been the most powerful political force in Pakistan, it has undergone important changes in the decades since independence.

For a proud and once powerful land such as China, such noblesse oblige was painful to accept and created lasting reservoirs of resentment.

Even so, America remains by far the world s most powerful country its decline has more to do with its incompetent use of power than with the emergence of competitors.

The US could gain doubly, both from the public goods themselves, and from the way they legitimize its preponderant power in the eyes of others.

In a country full of contradictory attitudes toward women ranging from the worship of the powerful goddess Durga to the killing of innocent young brides such gestures can be very powerful.

So instead of mistrusting one person, they grew suspicious of an institution even of government itself. When a stubborn teenager went up against the mighty lottery authority with its army of auditors and inspectors and initial alibis, this individual, not the system, was the clear winner of the public's admiration.

Although the language of religion was not used overtly, the debate in Asia reflected the same fears that science is somehow out of control and far too powerful.

The US will remain the most powerful country in 2020, but, paradoxically, the strongest state since the days of Rome will be unable to protect its citizens acting alone.

When a stubborn teenager went up against the mighty lottery authority with its army of auditors and inspectors and initial alibis, this individual, not the system, was the clear winner of the public's admiration.

Although the language of religion was not used overtly, the debate in Asia reflected the same fears that science is somehow out of control and far too powerful.

Finally, taking the fight directly to Iraq s most powerful Shi a militia and Iranians inside Iraq will align the US much more closely with its traditional Sunni Arab allies Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf states.

All that was necessary to challenge the world s mightiest power, after all, was a disgruntled US Army intelligence analyst, some hacking knowledge, a few computers, and a handful of determined activists enrolled under the contested banner of transparency.

Unfortunately, the global system of international law and governance remains too weak to prevent the determined misbehavior of the president of the world's most powerful country if he is hell bent on starting a war on his own.

The Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad retains huge influence over key levers of the Lebanese state, including the security and intelligence apparatus, the army, and the judiciary not to mention an alliance with the militarily powerful Hezbollah.

The US remains the greatest economic and military power in the world, but questions about its solvency have in turn cast doubt on its ability to act and lead in the world.

No one has a greater interest in broad acceptance of this noxious idea that promotion of human freedom is nothing more than a geopolitical tool than the world s largest, oldest, and most powerful autocracy, China.

In his vulgar use of Holocaust metaphors to portray the Iranian threat, he sounds more like the principal of a Jewish ghetto about to be annihilated by an agitated mob than the prime minister of the most powerful country in the Middle East.

In my view, a focus on global public goods things everyone can consume without diminishing their availability to others could help America reconcile its preponderant power with others interests.