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Example sentences for "great powers"

  • The whole political constitution of the empire was remodeled; and Japan took rank with the great powers of the world.

  • Within a decade there came a second and much more portentous revolt against this strange game of Great Powers, this tangled interaction of courts and policies which obsessed Europe.

  • The British colonies in America flatly refused to have further part or lot in this game of 'Great Powers.

  • The growth of the idea of Great Powers 243 ยง 7.

  • The collapse and break up of Russia has surely for the present eliminated her from the number of Great Powers.

  • But it is very probable that the end of the World War will see the number of Great Powers reduced to six.

  • We ought, therefore, to say, "The Druid priests claimed great powers.

  • Since the Concert of Europe disappeared and gradually gave place to the two opposing alliances of great powers, there has been no such authority in the civilised world.

  • Faced with the implacable hostility of France, on account of the lost provinces, Bismarck saw danger of trouble from a French Coalition with the two remaining Great Powers, Britain and Russia.

  • Annual meeting of prime ministers and foreign secretaries of British Empire, United States, France, Italy, Japan, and any other States recognized by them as great powers.

  • The unity of Italy rises out of the war of France and Sardinia against Austria in 1859, and Italy ranges henceforth among the Great Powers of Europe.

  • They are the following: Great Powers are: Austria-Hungary.

  • The chief reasons have been hitherto the balance of power in Europe and the interest in keeping up a weak State as a so-called Buffer-State between the territories of Great Powers.

  • Yet though Japan received no indemnity and little in the way of material acquisitions of any kind, she came out of the war with a prestige that no one was likely to question, and has since ranked among the great Powers of the world.

  • Today it is not only the protection of a country related to us and unjustly attacked that must be accorded, but we must safeguard the honor, the dignity and the integrity of Russia and her position among the Great Powers.

  • He had a cool temper, a sound judgement, great powers of application, and a constant eye to the main chance.

  • Now here we have a book which is by no means a favourable specimen of the English literature of the nineteenth century, a book indicating neither extensive knowledge nor great powers of reasoning.

  • The emoluments of the Pay Office might induce the defeated statesman to submit in silence to the ascendency of his competitor, but could not satisfy a mind conscious of great powers, and sore from great vexations.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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