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Following the period of peace, which had lasted since 1739, Russia began to assert its expansionistic desires again in 1768.

Abeil are industrious and expansionistic creatures with a complex social structure.

"The revs are what they've always been - an expansionistic and opportunistic culture with a high birth rate.

During the Continuation War he supported the idea of an expansionistic war.

By the end, they had become the Aztecs, rulers of a socially stratified and expansionistic empire.

The Godwins believe that Falena needs to be more centralized, powerful and perhaps expansionistic.

Manfred fought the expansionistic policies of Thomas, as had his father, and he defended the borders of his march with care.

Philip II of Macedonia used its power to further his expansionistic conquests in Greece.

"Young, barbaric, expansionistic races," Hweeksk said.

In 500 BC the Persian Empire was still relatively young and highly expansionistic, but prone to revolts amongst its subject peoples.

On Sunday, the Vice President said that the Soviets retained expansionistic attitudes in Central America, Afghanistan and several other parts of the world.

To the north, Shamshi-Adad I was undertaking expansionistic wars, although his untimely death would fragment his newly conquered Semitic empire.

The margraviate of Montferrat was torn to pieces by the incessant expansionistic wars of William VII's reign.

His long-time archenemy is Aycharaych, a cultured but ruthless telepathic spymaster who weaves plots for the expansionistic rival empire of the alien Merseians.

The aim, Finkelstein contends, is to silence criticisms of Israeli policies and to provide a cover for that country's expansionistic and illegal policies in the Palestinian territories.

The eventual recovery of Lyon by the Kings of France alerted Amadeus to their expansionistic tendencies towards the regions by the Alps.

With the start of the Phocian War in 356 BC, Demosthenes became increasingly active in encouraging Athens to fight vigorously against Phillip's expansionistic aims.

In your speeches, you've several times quorted the works of Lenin, made reference to them - on that work - in these quotations you talked about the expansionistic intentions of Soviet Communists.

According to Ken Rolston, "The haughty and arrogant Red Wizards of Thay employ their awesome sorcerous powers in their expansionistic and imperialistic policy of swallowing up neighbor states."

The Toth were an expansionistic race and were slain by King Fallion of Mystarria when he led the massed armies of humanity across the Caroll Sea to the Toth homeland.

Kaan still retained something of the far-ranging expansionistic impulse that had seen it assert hegemony over kingdoms as far afield as Moral-Reforma in the west and Dos Pilas in the south in the years before 695.

The resulting fall-out between Stalin and Tito in 1948 gave the Bulgarian Government an eagerly-awaited opportunity of denouncing Yugoslav policy in Macedonia as expansionistic and of revising their policy on the Macedonian question.

This is a particularly significant period in the Doctor Who fictional universe, being the time of the Great Breakout, an expansionistic period where mankind headed for the stars (The Invisible Enemy) as well as the home era of K-9.

As Phraates faced no resistance from Seleucids, when he robbed them of unproductive and valueless province and conquered the Amardians, expansionistic appetite in his eyes grew up and he resolved to append adjacent territory to his kingdom.