"power" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Cold War was at its height in the early 1950s, and the Soviet Union was viewed as an expansionist power seeking world domination.
- In this message Ahmedinejad said that "if Christ were on earth today, undoubtedly he would stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers".
- The Pakistani leader described India as "an expansionist power" and claimed that New Delhi had "started" all three wars between the two countries in 1947, 1965 and 1971.
- But in spite of these difficulties, the Empire remained a major expansionist power until the Battle of Vienna in 1683, which marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe.
- Overall, the sinocentric worldview and China's history of centuries of self-sufficiency favored isolation, which contributed to China's difficulty when confronted by expansionist Western powers in the nineteenth century.
- Though the Race is an expansionist imperial power, the Race itself is a relatively peaceful society, having overcome internal wars and maintained a politically stable interstellar empire for nearly 50,000 human years.
- Mohamed Ali's aims were not just to protect Egypt but to make her an expansionist power in the Eastern Mediterranean.
- Just as important, Bush administration officials do not wish the United States to be seen as an expansionist power eager to set up large, permanent military bases across the Muslim world.
- But every expansionist power in this century has made similar claims against those who have tried to quell their aggression.
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