These two huge industries are giving the American economy a powerful if perhaps temporary boost.

The uncertainties surrounding supplies of fossil fuels have nevertheless given nuclear energy a powerful boost.

Major construction programs send a powerful boost rippling through an ailing economy.

Cultural change, on the other hand, receives a powerful boost from amalgamation and anastomosis of different traditions.

This degree of global standardisation gave a powerful boost to both disc and player development.

Germany's rate cuts should eventually give a powerful boost to Europe's economy.

It would give a "powerful boost to our historic efforts to redeem the country in its entirety".

It is time data protection was given a powerful boost.