Sentence examples for expansionist mode from inspiring English sources

Recalling the building's roots in religious literature, Mr. Hardy said, "It was most unusual for its time and signified speculation in the expansionist mode of the city at the time as much as it was a statement on religion".

Which got them, not too many decades later, into empire-building expansionist mode, which eventually got them two of their larger cities vaporised, blown away by an enemy wielding a technology that might as well have come from a distant galaxy.

It has been said that you'll bring a more expansionist style to Rio Tinto.

And in some sense he was an expansionist about modality.

The European modern tradition works on that expansionist model, rewarding those who stake out new territory.

In foreign policy, China is not expansionist in the manner of the Soviet Union.

The British Empire, after a final expansionist fling in the aftermath of the First World War, went into recessional mode, beginning with the independence of India in 1947 and ending with the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese 50 years later.

Thereafter, his expansionist campaigns began.

America, he says, is expansionist.

#700-31 "The Reluctant Expansionist" by Judy Feldman.

By 1889 this expansionist drive was spent.