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Example sentences for "world power"

  • International Socialists had every reason to welcome this peaceful downfall of England's world power" (pp.

  • Within a few years the United States has been affected by an ambition to be a world power.

  • At the same time that the United States has moved towards the character of a world power it has become militant.

  • A world power is a state which expects to have a share in the settlement of every clash of interests and collision of state policies which occurs anywhere on the globe.

  • War forged that Prussia, hard as steel, on which the New Germany could grow up as a mighty European State and a World Power of the future.

  • And finally: "In this contest wheat won, demonstrating its importance as a world power of greater significance than cotton" (p.

  • This, in the final analysis, is the only way to halt the communist drive to world power.

  • We would go as far as any nation in the world to avoid war, but we are a world power.

  • It will not, for example, be consistent with the character of a world power to apply to the government of new colonies the same methods, or lack of method, that has prevailed in the government of our cities and some of our states.

  • In point of fact, we have been a "world power" from the very moment of our birth as a nation, or even before it.

  • Annexation did not take place until nearly half a century later, but the episode suffices to prove that even at that early day we were a world power in all that the term implies.

  • Germany must be a World Power, and nothing must stop her in fulfilling her destiny.

  • They are what we are not, and what we are destined to be--a World Power.

  • He hates the thought that England should be such a World Power, while Germany is only an European Power.

  • Her continuance as a world power depends on the superiority--the numerical superiority at least--of her navy.

  • These differences were caused on the one hand by the political activities of Germany as a world power, and on the other by her commercial and industrial expansion which bid fair to relegate Great Britain to a subordinate position.

  • Though this war made the United States a world power, commercial or political aggrandizement played no part in her entry into the struggle.

  • They had saved their independence, but after the close of the 17th century they ceased to be a world power of any consequence.

  • With this loss of sea power began the decline of Persia as a world power.

  • World power or downfall' was their formula; it gave their antagonists no alternative but a fight to a conclusive end.

  • Some families have fought, others have intrigued their way to world power; the Habsburgs married their way.

  • Coolidge's "The United States as a World Power" (1908) is based on a profound understanding of European as well as American conditions.

  • In the same review Emil Zimmermann explains the rĂ´le of German East Africa in the future scheme of world power: [Sidenote: German Africa would have balance of power in the East.

  • She will have become not indeed a world power (to-day there are only two such), but a European Great Power whose friendship will be well worth acquiring.

  • She became a Great Power in the wars against China and Russia, and is qualifying for the part of a World Power to-day.

  • Japan, having become a Great Power after her war with China, was slowly developing into a world Power, and hoped to establish her claim to that position one day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chief command; deemed proper; heavenly places; just exactly; making laws; nearly equal; none note; peculiar character; perceive them; pray what; see her; sense organs; soft pine; this second; turned the; violent effort; world affairs; world civilization; world empire; world full; world government; world history; world markets; world peace; world where; worldly wisdom