Now so far as the forms of the eighteenth century were concerned the romantic expansionist had legitimate grounds for protest.
The chief grievance of the expansionistindeed against the no-principle is that it kills enthusiasm.
Polk was President of the United States, and James Buchanan was his Secretary of State; both men of southern, proslavery and expansionist proclivities.
His stout imperialism had won him the leadership of the expansionist West and South.
However, the news of these battles and victories had aroused the expansionist instincts of the people of the United States, or at least of the articulate classes, to the point of demanding the annexation of the whole of Mexico.
The growing instability of a dozen far-reaching theatres, had first cautiously, and then more freely, burst into expansionist violence.
The successful termination of this campaign had an effect of signal importance in the development of the expansionist spirit.
In this very class of professional hunters, living like Indians, was thus bred the spirit of individual initiative and strenuous leadership in the great westward expansionist movement of the coming decade.
The Jacksonian Democracy had always been expansionist in disposition and policy, and under the influence of their nationalism they had lost interest in Jefferson's humanitarianism.
As empire building proceeds under its inescapable expansionist drive, a point will be reached at which the overhead costs of maintaining the empire will exceed the income.
A part of the expansionist drive was "strictly business" in character.
All civilizations known to history prepared for war and utilized war as the final arbiter in their pursuit of expansionist policy.
Unless the newly acquired territory can attain those ends and serve those interests it is a liability, not an asset, and its continued existence will pose a threat to the expansionist venture.
This new nationalism was unlike the expansionist movement of the fifties in that it laid no particular stress upon the incorporation of the neighboring republics by a process of federation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expansionist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
