Hampton Sides

The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.

American Historian

Drew Gilpin Faust

I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.

American Politician

Matt Hancock

The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market system.

British Politician

Max Brooks

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

American Author

Used mostly to discuss strength and capabilities in a military or combat setting.

Military Context

'Firepower' extends beyond guns: it includes tanks, jets, and naval strength.

Not Just Guns

Could be used figuratively to mean 'bringing out the big guns' on an issue.

Figurative Usage

In business, it means having strong resources or capabilities in a certain area.

Business Strength

Firepower can denote the level of influence or authority in a situation or sector.

Influence and Authority

Suggests possessing a strategic advantage or effective tools in competition.

Strategic Advantage

 you're about to meet the spider equivalent of a stealthy jungle cat this Virginian specimen is the jumping spider and it packs a ton of stalking pouncing killing firepower in its tiny body here's the victim this be the jumping

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 This raises the very real possibility of anonymous war. This could tilt the geopolitical balance on its head, make it very difficult for a nation to turn its firepower against an attacker, and that could shift the balance

Daniel Suarez: The kill...

 That's eight and a half times the GDP of the U.S. That's the world's largest economy. That's some serious freaking firepower. So we can reconsider some of these pressing challenges, like fresh water, clean air,

Chris McKnett: The...

 mosquitoes are spreading a disease called chikungunya it's already been reported in 47 states at the Centers for Disease Control they are fighting back against the mosquito the CDC brings a lot of firepower to

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 that defied credulity. A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence. At the same time, all of our firepower was impotent

Liz Coleman's call to...

 like it but it's only the start of a terrifying decade Dave land now set the mark we had never encountered any County violence like that in the face of the killer's firepower the cops begin to

Miami Drug Cartel PIPE...

 you're about to meet the spider equivalent of a stealthy jungle cat this Virginian specimen is the jumping spider and it packs a ton of stalking pouncing killing firepower in its tiny body

 exactly with that purpose. What we are known best for, we are the financial first responder. We are coming in this incredible shock with very significant financial firepower.

How to rebuild the...

 a relative of mine and he was pointing a gun at someone threatening to kill him when confronted with heavy firepower olic has little in the way of protection