This was one of the more powerful myths leading to the present government's keen interest in policies geared towards the encouragement of small firms.

The flat-rate payroll tax that everybody pays up to $51,300 in earnings is a vestige of a powerful myth.

In telling of these American places, Lukas had to challenge some powerful reassuring myths about our past.

"There's a powerful myth that getting older means getting decrepit," says Dutta.

Mr. Kelly may be up against a powerful myth.

As such, they created powerful myths and stories based on local artefacts and local happenings.

He needs a new unifying definition of Afghanistan to replace the old and still powerful myth of jihad against foreign occupation.

Such a reading was an extremely powerful myth for the poor and excluded classes of England.

Yet the terrorists' most powerful myth is being destroyed.

"There was a time when we thought of drugs as a powerful myth," he said.