But the pictures did. What the camera showed was so powerful that the city's health officials started to do something.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

British ships,with the help of planes launched from an aircraft carrier, destroyed a powerful German battleship, the Bismarck on May 27,1941.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

He says the business market is the most powerful force for economic growth and lifting people out of poverty.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

An airplane had flown over the area where the birds were kept and spread a powerful chemical called DDT.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Jackson's doctor became the subject of a police investigation after admitting he gave Jackson a powerful drug to help him sleep.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

"But she never expected you to do things the right way. And that is a very powerful thing."

VOA: special.2010.12.10

All that and more is urgently needed after a powerful earthquake wrecked much of Haiti's capital on Tuesday.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

I wanted to make a powerful lens that would let me see even the smallest parts of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Flem Snopes marries into a powerful family but his wife does not even have a name for him.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

The event gathers some of the world's most powerful political and business leaders at a small ski village in the Swiss Alps.

VOA: special.2009.01.23

This powerful form of creative expression usually involves art made outside the limits and rules of official culture.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11