21.   In the drylands of southern Kenya, businessmen, many related to powerful politicians, use scarce water for their ostrich or flower farms.

22.   In recent months, Bashir has sidelined Hassan Turabi, a powerful Islamic politician with whom he had shared power for years.

23.   In the past, powerful politicians and teachers and entertainers and writers had reputations that preceded them.

24.   It was conceived by powerful politicians more than a half century ago, built in Tennessee with the latest technology and managed by Washington professionals.

25.   It will also greatly annoy powerful politicians from resource-driven states in the West.

26.   Most of all, he had cultivated the skills of Mexican narcotics diplomacy and knew what it took to buy protection from powerful politicians.

27.   Neither set of rules applies specifically to the scenario of a brokerage tossing hot IPOs to a powerful politician while at the same time it is seeking bond contracts.

28.   Opposition parties have said commercial banks extended unsecured loans to Hanbo because of pressures from powerful politicians, including those from the presidential office.

29.   Powerful politicians criticized the bailout.

30.   Regional companies fell hostage to powerful local politicians who blocked cutoffs and protected large customers who sometimes failed to pay their bills.