powerful union
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpowerfulandunion
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powerful
adjective
uk/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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union
noun
uk/ˈjuː.njən/us/ˈjuː.njən/
the act or the state of being ...
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(Definition ofpowerfulandunionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These people see nopowerfulunionto help them.
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It is not only because he has got apowerfulunionbehind him.
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The doctors' trade union is the mostpowerfulunionin this country.
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The largest and probably the mostpowerfulunionin the country is engaged in this industry.
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We all know that it is a great andpowerfulunion, with many able and distinguished men in its ranks.
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They have nopowerfulunionto stand up for increases in their earnings, and no"threshold"clause to be triggered by the rise in the retail price index.
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They would not be working in those conditions if they had apowerfulunioneffectively able to act for them with their employers.
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However, anyone with a sense of fairness must regard it as intolerable that a man should be forced out of his employment by the action of apowerfulunion.
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We are concerned with a section of the population who have nopowerfulunionto represent them and no powerful negotiating body.
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The service is not now classified as a broadcasting service as such, especially by the unions operating in the industry, of which mine is a verypowerfulunion.
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There are large differences in reward which bear no relation to the work or contribution of the individual but which result from historical accident or particularlypowerfulunionpressure.
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Yet the public are asked to be sorry for the way in which thispowerfulunionhas been treated.
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If an employee is lucky enough to have apowerfulunion, the union will negotiate better holidays.
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With such a shop steward, one does not need a verypowerfulunionof one million members.
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However halting, the emergence of politically powerful unions dramatically affected party politics and generated new questions about political finance.
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The emergence of powerful unions confronted the justices with the dilemmas of pluralist democracy, but they lacked both the willingness and the conceptual tools to deal with them.
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Later in this article, two alternative hypotheses will be formulated, among them one that argues that the government will yield to powerful unions that clearly give priority to earnings-related benefits.
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There are other powerful unions which are of equal standing.
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Some of the most powerful unions are among the smallest numerically.
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