Sentence examples for a mighty state from inspiring English sources

In other words, sometimes violence works, though we seem to have wholly lost sympathy for the idea that any entity — or group — aside from a mighty state in pursuit of deranged fanatics is justified in using it.

Sad because, according to the F.B.I. affidavit, the information requested by the Russian government ("Moscow Center," as it's called) is so mundane, and some of it merely trade secrets, unbefitting a mighty state and redolent too of the central planning that once turned the U.S.S.R. into an economic basket case.

Here's an ice cold one: winning a landslide victory in the mighty state of Vermont is not a foundation for success.

We must know our history, know it as it really is, draw lessons from it and always remember those who created the Russian state, championed its dignity and made it a great, powerful and mighty state...

Winning a landslide victory in the mighty state of Vermont is not a foundation for success.

Delegates in Geneva stressed that in multilateral talks, every country has a vote: mighty states must not count on cajoling weaker ones.

Jim also breaks a two-week streak by the mighty state of Illinois.

"NOT English" is how Mr Podsnap deplores the idea of a mighty central state in Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend".

Among the ordinary Russian church-goers with whom I have spoken, there is (and has been since the Soviet collapse) a widespread belief that a mighty Russian state will one day re-emerge, in tandem with Orthodoxy.

But eventually, they believe, that mighty state will turn on the Christians and persecute them more ruthlessly than ever.

Yet alongside the mighty state engine myriad smaller ones are whirring and probably more efficiently.China's state-controlled entities are not particularly profitable.