To this end, he appointed expansionists to diplomatic posts throughout Europe, notably sending Pierre Soulé, an outspoken proponent of Cuban annexation, as United States Minister to Spain.
Walker's pamphlet brought forth strident demands for Texas from pro-slavery expansionists in the South; in the North, it allowed anti-slavery expansionists to embrace Texas without appearing to be aligned with pro-slavery extremists.
They argue that the deal, which the Obama administration is forging with 11 other Pacific nations, will show that Washington is not going to allow an expansionist Beijing to dominate the region with tactics ranging from bullying smaller nations to building island fortresses in disputed waters.
In its forties, the Republican Party became expansionist, went to war with Spain and then fought a war in the Philippines to bring "the little brown brother" under its tutelage.
Under the command of the formidable Patricia Hodgson, and with the expensive assistance of consultants from McKinsey, the young turks of Policy and Planning developed ambitious expansionist strategies to justify the preservation of the licence fee, while bending supposedly sceptical ministers to the corporation's thinking.
It outlines an expansionist programme to bring big data together with the more traditional approaches of the social and humanistic sciences: the worlds of small data.
More preposterous still, later on, is the gleam of golden arches reflected in Ray's windshield, and the drumroll that we hear just before he reveals his expansionist dream to Mac and Dick.
Discussions will range across the Russian advance in Ukraine and expansionist threat to the Baltics, the Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan next year, the possibility of wider alliance air strikes in northern Iraq against Islamic State (Isis), the need for Nato to produce a viable rapid reaction force in Europe as well as respond to the threats of hybrid warfare and terrorism.
September Women's golf adds a fifth major by decree with the Evian Masters joining the ranks, which gives expansionist ideas to officials in other sports who were, until now, unaware that one could simply announce the existence of a fifth major.
It has been said that you'll bring a more expansionist style to Rio Tinto.
