1.   Even a predator as powerful as a tiger wants to avoid risk of damage to itself.

2.   The Fokker was as powerful as any plane of its day.

3.   To offer peak performance in providing the electronic data and paperless trading global investors expect, Shanghai plans telecommunications networks as powerful as those in Manhattan.

4.   The combined cooling effect is estimated as being only about one-fifth as powerful as the overall warming caused by greenhouse gases.

5.   A cup of tea also has an effect, though not as powerful as coffee, which makes psychologists think it is the caffeine in both which counts.

6.   This implies that monetary policy is not very powerful as a means of influencing output and employment.

7.   Although mainframes can usually run several programs at the same time, they are not as powerful as supercomputers in terms of raw processing speed.

8.   And it is despicable when a lawyer as senior and powerful as Jim Baker denounces a judicial decision against him and says it will be muscled in the Legislature.

9.   And, as ever, a change in style has little impact on anything as powerful as the wish to believe in happily ever after.