"continental" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We are a great continental power with vast treasures of raw materials.
- France holds similar views, and together the two big continental powers may be able to bring smaller countries along with them.
- For Austria, a continental power, the reality was different.
- It too was copied, first of all by France and later by other continental naval powers.
- Recognising a major threat to her security, Britain abandoned the policy of holding aloof from entanglements with continental powers.
- The Innsbruckers have never forgotten the emperor who allowed them to breathe the heady atmosphere of a continental power for a time.
- In spite of the need for central government, England was not unlike many continental powers.
- He watched the Senate struggle to reconstruct a shattered nation, then cope with America's emergence as a continental power and industrial giant.
- In past centuries, shortages of military manpower used to force us into alliances with continental powers.
- After 1871 Germany, united under Prussian leadership, was the strongest continental power in Europe.
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