"potential" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The age classes gathered together males from all clans, and they were the main potential counterweight to the power of the clan leaders.
- Vietnam also serves as a potential strategic counterweight against an increasingly unpredictable China.
- France fears that expanding the European Union membership will erode its influence and weaken Europe's position as a potential counterweight to American power.
- India's rivalry with China makes it a potential counterweight to Beijing in the Russian strategic calculus - just as it was in Soviet times.
- Additionally, the summit meeting opened the way for Egypt, long ostracized by other Arab countries because of its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, to re-enter the Arab fold, supposedly as a demographic and potential military counterweight to Iran.
- From the start of President Bush's term, some influential officials in his administration saw India as a potential counterweight to that other Asian behemoth, China, whose growing power was seen as a potential strategic threat.
- Relying more on ordinary citizens than on the professional military, the Patriotic Guards served as a potential counterweight to or check on the power and influence of the regular armed forces.
- By the early 1980's, the generals who ran Turkey for two years after taking power in a coup had come to see Islam as a potential counterweight to what was seen as a Communist threat during the cold war.
- India is also perceived as challenging a potential counterweight to China's regional power.
- Cocoa production declined in the 1970s and 1980s, however, and market conditions discouraged international investors from viewing it as a potential counterweight to Uganda's reliance on coffee exports.
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