How to Use "powerhouse" with Example Sentences

1. Corruption , grandstanding and total incompetence may sink brazil 's dreams of becoming an oil exporting powerhouse .
2. Can nintendo 's 3ds handheld become a powerhouse e-reader ?
3. Freak snowstorms have short-circuited the economic powerhouse china .
4. Yet as quickly as china has risen as an athletic powerhouse , so have questions from other teams clouding its achievements .
5. The image of white-suited colonials sipping singapore slings on the raffles hotel veranda have long been subsumed by singapore 's reputation as a corruption-free ( and chewing-gum-free ) economic powerhouse .