Searching for the word powerful in House of Representatives within the 1970s…
The word powerful
- appears in 0.8% of speeches
- appears 1091 times in 858 speeches
- was spoken on 474 sitting days by 158 different people
- appears in speeches on 562 different topics
Top speakers:
- SNEDDEN, Billy (55 uses)
- HAYDEN, Bill (47 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (39 uses)
- CAIRNS, Jim (31 uses)
- PATTERSON, Rex (28 uses)
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Top days:
- 4 April 1974 (13 uses)
- 25 February 1976 (12 uses)
- 19 October 1970 (11 uses)
- 8 May 1973 (10 uses)
- 19 August 1971 (9 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (41 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (26 uses)
- PETITIONS: Broadcasting and Television (15 uses)
- GRIEVANCE DEBATE (13 uses)
- INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Suspension of Standing Orders (11 uses)
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Associated words:
- powerful friends (66 appearances)
- powerful unions (25 appearances)
- powerful trade (18 appearances)
- powerful argument (16 appearances)
- powerful forces (16 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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Since it took power in a very dubious way, this Government has represented the powerful elite in this country.Not only has it transferred wealth from the workers’ wage packet to the private sector but also it has cut back on public works and transferred this activity to the private sector.
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No doubt it is a power that he will use only as a last resort, but it is a very real power which bureaucrats know can be exercised, and it will act as a very powerful inducement to them to comply with the reasonable recommendations of the Ombudsman.
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The Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) has made a very powerful speech and in view of what he said I think I should devote some of my time to spelling out the attitude of the Australian
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He devoted 25 words of that statement to Indonesia, a nation of 120 million people, one of the richest archipelagos in the world and a nation rich in resources that inevitably with the march of history and progress will become a powerful factor for stability in the whole of South East Asia.
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The United States of America, our great and powerful friend, as somebody was once wont to call it, does not maintain any territorial claims to the Antarctic continent, but it gathers scientific research material in that area.