Sentence examples for a hyperpower from inspiring English sources

But even democracy brings its own temptations when it exists in a hyperpower.

"HYPERPUISSANCE": what a wonderfully French way to define America, not as a "superpower" but as a "hyperpower", implying, surely, an excess that must be curbed.

When Mr. Védrine referred to "American hegemony" and to the United States as a "hyperpower," Ms. Albright took it as a criticism.

Today, America is not just a superpower, it's a hyperpower, with both unrivaled military might and an information economy that is the envy of the world.

Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine likes to call the United States a "hyperpower" given to "unilateralist temptation" because "there is no counterweight".

Worse, her conceptions of what constitues a hyperpower and what constitutes tolerance are distinctly elastic: the Dutch Republic and the Roman, British, and Mongol Empires all end up fitting the thesis.

Today, with a single hyperpower and a larger, more complex Europe, the United States could certainly go on pursuing this classic imperial strategy.

She has in her hands some excellent cards, indeed aces, if she knows how to play them, to preserve in the best sense of the term her identity and influence, and to make a decisive contribution as much for a better-organised world as for a reinforced Europe".In other words, France does not accept the logic of a world dominated by a single hyperpower.

We cannot accept a politically unipolar world, nor a culturally uniform world, nor the unilateralism of a single hyperpower".

If demography is destiny, they will not have to find out what a Chinese hyperpower looks like: the fertility rate in China is only 1.7, and there are almost no immigrants.

The existence of a military "hyperpower" that really means business -- i.e., that is able and willing to use its superior force -- may in fact be better for world peace than any number of international treaties.