Under this board was another, less powerful board.

The Public Service Commission is a powerful and ostensibly independent board that oversees utilities and the telecommunications industry, though in practice the governor controls it.

Having spent decades in the shadow of the more powerful board, the Council would become the city's true legislature, the commission says.

These are corporate structures, with very powerful boards.

Shareholders are subject to the whims of a powerful board.

When the public school system was begun in 1842, it was divided into 17 wards, each run by a powerful board.

It doesn't have a reliable financial base in the form of a powerful board of trustees or wealthy patrons.

The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the university's two governing boards, meets twice a month to decide matters of fiscal, educational and institutional policy.

His departure gives President Clinton his third chance to fill a vacancy on the powerful board in less than a year.

Although Attali claims to delight in a powerful board ("Why shouldn't I," he says.