1.   The charges brought against Raul Salinas were supposed to herald the end of impunity for powerful politicians and equal justice for everyone.

2.   He was the most powerful politician in the land.

3.   And how could a powerful politician who subjects women to such degradation keep his proclivities off the front pages until recently?

4.   And winning gave her the kind of advantage that usually comes from having a powerful politician for a father.

5.   Because the dinner speakers are mostly powerful politicians with large egos, leading Washington humorists agree that the key to success is self-deprecation.

6.   Beyond that, if negotiations turned sour, company executives sent distress calls to powerful politicians.

7.   A number of those bases are in the New York region, but the states of some powerful politicians, like Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, were spared.

8.   A leading Hindu nationalist who is the most powerful politician in Bombay, Balasaheb Thackeray, was thrilled.

9.   A powerful politician, especially one on a hot streak like Clinton, can succumb to delusions of grandeur.

10.   After intense lobbying by maritime unions, shipping lines and powerful politicians from coastal states, the House passed the new program in December.