Japan has economically become a powerful nation.

Its people have become powerful, arrogant, and enormously rich.

Programs become entrenched, develop powerful constituencies, and are hard to shrink.

The country s civil society has become more organized, more powerful, and more vibrant.

The latter have become increasingly vocal and powerful, often represented by large multinational corporations.

Or, to put it differently, special interests have become so powerful and entrenched that any attempt at reform brings out a powerful lobby against it.

Regulators have the power to require that boards become more powerful or at least minimally effective.

As for sustainable resource management, the EITI s stakeholder process could become a powerful tool for promoting national action plans.

This suggests that governing principles and sturdy political institutions, not powerful individuals, have become the bedrock of Mexican governance.

And what this means, and where I'm going, is that technology has become the most powerful force in the world.

Still others blame the invisible hand of America, which is supposed to fear that Iran and Turkey could become too powerful.

Powerful criminal groups have thus become involved in the trade, making use of violence, corruption and close links to state agencies.

Eventually, these technologies will become so powerful that we will use them to know ourselves by deconstructing and reconstructing our own brains.

As a result, unlike Wilhelmine Germany, the Chinese are not in a hurry to prove how strong and powerful they have become.

They survived in northern and central Italy as in a handful of other regions throughout Europe to become independent and powerful city states.

The interdependence of all states large or small, weak or powerful, democratic or authoritarian has become the organizing principle of today s international security system.

More generally, Twitter has become a powerful tool for Chinese citizens as they increasingly play a role in reporting local news in their communities.

By leaving Pinchuk off this list, Yushchenko may be hinting that he wants a truce with Ukraine's most powerful magnate should he become president.

As for Pinochet himself, ever since July 2004, when the US Senate revealed his vast secret bank accounts, the once powerful dictator has become a pariah.

Besides, PDP s powerful governors, in control of 28 of the country s 36 states, see Jonathan as an upstart who came from the middle of nowhere to become president.

That kind of procedure has become the norm, which is gradually changing the United Nations into an instrument by which the Organization's most powerful countries can exercise control.

Whatever the dubious temporary merits of reviving industrial policy in a deep recession, governments need an exit strategy before the programs become permanently entrenched and develop powerful rent seeking constituencies.

The former cabaret singer who became one of the richest businessman in the world, has also managed to become Italy s most powerful politician and one of the world s most colorful.

And these methods have become even more powerful in recent years with advances in information and communications technology, which make global solutions easier to identify and implement than ever before.

Later during the 1980s and 1990s, as multinational media conglomerates grow larger and more powerful many believe that it will become increasingly difficult for small, local media outlets to survive.

If top leaders do not monitor their systems to ensure that they are producing full and accurate information flows, the systems are likely to become distorted by the most powerful subordinates.

M remains a powerful work it was remade in 1951 by Joseph Losey, but this version had little impact on audiences, and has become harder to see than the original film.

Mexico s Powerful Energy Reforms

North Korea s Powerful Weakness

So, it's a force that is the most powerful force that has been unleashed on this planet, and in such a degree that I think that it's become our who we are.

There are often regulatory barriers to converting farmland into urban land, but these barriers tend to be thwarted in the long run if economic incentives to work around them become sufficiently powerful.

With the proper configuration, clear guidelines and procedures on its use, a search engine and other facilities, it could become a powerful resource for sharing information between subregional offices and with ECA.

However, at the heart of the issue lies the Iranian regime s aspiration to become a hegemonic Islamic and regional power and thereby position itself at eye level with the world s most powerful nations.

The UNICEF findings are powerful.

The Powerlessness of the Powerful

America was powerful enough to destabilize the existing regional order, but not powerful enough to establish a new one.

But General Babangida also has deep pockets. Besides, PDP s powerful governors, in control of 28 of the country s 36 states, see Jonathan as an upstart who came from the middle of nowhere to become president.

Why are these antitrust tools not used against today s megabanks, which have become so powerful that they can sway legislation and regulation massively in their favor, while also receiving generous taxpayer financed bailouts as needed?

The ancestors of James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States, were among the first Ulster Scots settlers, emigrating from Coleraine in 1680 to become a powerful political family in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

The approach is simple and powerful.

Kennedy had proved a powerful truth.

This answer is powerful but naïve.

A powerful prime minister seems preferable.

...while other tweets contained powerful images

A development bank anchored in emerging markets and developing countries can help to address this gap and become a powerful catalyst for change, both in the developing world and through collaboration and example in existing institutions.