Sentence examples for distant power from inspiring English sources

Mexican rule had given them a mistrust of distant power.

But they happen when no one dares to tell truth to distant power.

Here the government was no different: a distant power inscrutable to those on the ground.

As that Arab-Muslim world fails and thrashes about, it directs its anger against a distant power.

Naturally, Beijing resents interference by a distant power in a region where its influence might otherwise go unchallenged.

They have no running water, no toilet and only a tiny flow of electricity, which is stolen -- leached through a wire spliced to a distant power line.

He conducted sophisticated negotiations with both neighbouring and distant powers, which are recorded in diplomatic archives from England to China.

In a matter of days, Afghan Kalashnikovs and American jets could largely fall silent here, giving way to an extraordinarily intricate political dance involving scores of tribes, parties, warlords, neighboring nations and more distant powers.

Now, his son, by traveling abroad so soon after his inauguration, seems intent on reconnecting his country to more distant powers, particularly Washington, which counts Rwanda and Uganda among its closest African allies.

Our imperial acquisition came through the usual mix of default and design, by the push of our interests, and by the furtive invitations extended to distant powers by worlds in need of an outside arbiter.

The paper also warned distant powers against "provocative" actions and interference in South China Sea affairs, an apparent reference to Washington's very publicly-aired concerns about a large-scale Chinese land reclamation project around mostly uninhabited reefs and atolls in the disputed waters.