Sentence examples for first-rate power from inspiring English sources

Still, there were powerful figures in the "establishment" - a phrase coined in the early 1950s - who could not accept that Britain was no longer a first-rate power.

They also had a few simple yet first-rate power chords up their sleeve, a legacy which Diamond Hoo Ha Man maintains.

In order to carry out these roles, jet carriers have become so huge that only a first-rate power can afford to build and operate them.

Thomas L. Friedman seems to be worried that health care and Social Security for the baby boomers will cause our country to lose its status as a first-rate power.

On the death of his half-brother Ferdinand VI in 1759 after a useful apprenticeship of 25 years as an absolute ruler he became king of Spain and resigned the crown of Naples to his third son, Ferdinand I. Charles III was convinced of his mission to reform Spain and make it once more a first-rate power.

"T.P.P. is not about agriculture reform; it's about whether Japan sits at the table when global rules are made and doing whatever it takes to be a first-rate power," said Jesper Koll, head of equities research at J.P. Morgan in Tokyo.

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

They can remind themselves of all the things this money would buy at home, and of the revolutionary calamities that have destroyed other first-rate nations that ignored the needs of their people at home in order to impress people elsewhere & of what happened in the end to all other first-rate powers throughout history.

These quitters are why we're a second-rate power.

Such reminders might lead citizens to conclude it would be comforting to be a second-rate power.

The prospect of being discredited, "reduced to a second-rate power," was what drove the war forward.