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Example sentences for "great power"

  • We must all defend her, we must show that we are defenders of a great ideal, and children of a great power.

  • He ended with the key-note: "Russia is a great power.

  • The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

  • There is a great power in a battery of individuals who are struggling for the achievement of high aims, a great magnetic force which will help you to attract the object of your ambition.

  • The impure man can not be a great power, because he can not thoroughly believe in himself when conscious that he is rotten in any part of his nature.

  • There is a sense of great power in a vocation after a man has reached the point of efficiency in it, the point of productiveness, the point where his skill begins to tell and brings in returns.

  • Brother Isaac Long gives promise of great power in the Word.

  • Whilst he was not regarded as a minister of great power in the stand, his influence in the councils of the church at home and abroad was felt and acknowledged.

  • Here he was elevated by the Lord to a position of great power, to a place and power next to the king on his throne.

  • The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph, With a great power of English and of Scots, Are by the shrieve of Yorkshire overthrown.

  • Our prestige, our position as a great power, our honor, are in question; and yet more, for it would seem that our very existence is concerned.

  • This picture leads up to the conclusion that a reckoning with Serbia, a war for the position of the [Dual] Monarchy as a great power, even for its existence as such, cannot be permanently avoided.

  • The policy is to separate from Austria-Hungary the southern Slav provinces, and so abolish the Dual Monarchy as a great power.

  • I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

  • Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.

  • His knowledge of history was singularly wide, and he sometimes showed a great power of vivid presentation.

  • He also wrote several longer novels, of which the best is Fardorougha the Miser (1837), a work of great power.

  • The Assyrian conquests in this quarter had long been tending to bring them into collision with the great power of Eastern Africa, which had once held, and always coveted, the dominion of Syria.

  • Most of the early kings of Assyria mention Merodach in their opening invocations, and we sometimes find an allusion in their inscriptions, which seems to imply that he was viewed as a god of great power.

  • As a burn, glass the lens has no great power; but it magnifies fairly, and may have been of great use to those who inscribed, or to those who sought to decipher, the royal memoirs.

  • Where a great power of Attention has been renewed or originally acquired, it requires considerable effort to continue that power.

  • Will not a decided benefit ensue to those who have acquired a great power of attention?

  • There is hardly any other country in the world where military men have concentrated such a great power in their hands.

  • A great Power, they hoped, was now coming to their Rescue.

  • The Turks could not even close a brothel, if protected, as it frequently was, by a Great Power.

  • The fame of Thebes was great, and Babylon had once a mighty name; Troy also was of great power, and Nineveh was a city broad and long; but whoso should now seek them would scarce find their place.

  • Alexander was a mighty king; he conquered twelve kingdoms in twelve years: he had many lands and much wealth, and was a king of great power; but his conquests availed him little, he was poisoned and died.

  • You mustn't pay too much attention to the talk you hear about the great power of Rumania and the influence we shall have upon the course of the war.

  • France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

  • These two losses, the one already probable, the other hypothetical, would still leave Austria in the unquestioned position of a Great Power.

  • The civilised world has been shocked during the past months at the spectacle of the open adoption by a great Power of this philosophy of selfishness.

  • Prussia must have an alliance with a great Power," the minister of William I.

  • June, 1866, in a solemn document produced before the legislative body; and among those questions any "modification of the map of Europe to the exclusive profit of a great Power" was naturally placed in the first rank.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great adventure; great anxiety; great artist; great credit; great doctor; great effort; great expense; great favour; great gods; great honour; great houses; great joy; great kindness; great matter; great roar; great scale; great size; great trial; great truth; great writer; greater amount; greater numbers; greater part; greater portion; greatest pleasure; passed down