England is the financial powerhouse of world rugby, with huge playing and commercial resources at its disposal.

"This is a global financial powerhouse," he told stock analysts yesterday.

Still, the US remains a financial powerhouse; doesn't it?

But the company has become a financial powerhouse, with 36 wholly owned subsidiaries offering a wide array of services.

India is the financial powerhouse of world cricket.

He left the firm four years and began to piece together another financial powerhouse, the company now known as the Travelers Group.

Now he heads a global financial powerhouse with $11 billion in assets.

If lower Manhattan fails as a financial powerhouse, the entire region will suffer.

For their part, Asia's smaller economies still fear being dominated by Japan's financial powerhouses.

Again, New York - a financial and industrial powerhouse - seemed the chief target.