Collocations for the word powerful when used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

Collocation	Frequency
powerful friends	66
powerful unions	25
powerful trade	18
powerful argument	16
powerful forces	16
powerful means	16
powerful friend	15
powerful ally	14
powerful economic	14
powerful nation	14
powerful vested	14
powerful allies	13
powerful case	11
powerful enough	11
powerful position	11
powerful speech	11
powerful country	10
powerful influence	10
powerful influences	10
powerful man	10
powerful people	10
powerful union	10
powerful industrial	9
powerful men	9
powerful new	9
powerful weapon	9
powerful arguments	8
powerful groups	8
powerful section	8
powerful companies	7
powerful sections	7
less powerful	6
powerful business	6
powerful financial	6
powerful incentive	6
powerful organisation	6
powerful upthrust	6
powerful weapons	6
fairly powerful	5
immensely powerful	5
powerful central	5
powerful corporations	5
powerful factor	5
powerful group	5
powerful interests	5
powerful jet	5
powerful organisations	5
pretty powerful	5
increasingly powerful	4
powerful army	4
powerful countries	4
powerful economies	4
powerful force	4
powerful interest	4
powerful intrusion	4
powerful lobby	4
powerful neighbour	4
powerful neighbours	4
powerful pressure	4
powerful reasons	4
powerful speeches	4
strong powerful	4
certain powerful	3
enormously powerful	3
extremely powerful	3
large powerful	3
many powerful	3
numerically powerful	3
powerful body	3
powerful elements	3
powerful foreign	3
powerful influential	3
powerful instrument	3
powerful international	3
powerful nations	3
powerful oil	3
powerful one	3
powerful persuasive	3
powerful point	3
powerful political	3
powerful propaganda	3
powerful public	3
powerful reason	3
powerful role	3
powerful sense	3
powerful state	3
powerful statement	3
powerful station	3
powerful trading	3
powerful voice	3