It has to make friends with a range of partners savvier and more powerful than the computer manufacturers it had grown accustomed to pushing around.

Never again would Britten allow a writer to be the more powerful partner in a musical collaboration.

But these are businessmen with a powerful partner, organized crime.

"The reality is that you're generally dead in the water if you make a claim against a powerful partner at these places."

The swap was intended to bring a powerful Russian partner into an all-foreign project here.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the less powerful partner in a relationship is more vulnerable to jealousy.

Their solution is to end the group's losses in personal computers by finding a powerful partner or by getting out of the business.

That alliance failed to materialize, however, because the cable companies worried that Microsoft would become too powerful a partner.

My heart's desire was safety for my people, and a partner powerful enough, passionate enough, to help me save them.

But Travelers through its investment in Nikko would be the more powerful partner.