Sentence examples for foremost powers from inspiring English sources

But understanding the radically different contexts in which German and French positions are honed is crucial as Europe's two foremost powers grapple with the crisis, said Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of Bruegel, a research institute based in Brussels.

A global order on the model of ius publicum Europaeum will therefore remain unattainable, and a global civil war characterized by absolute enmity will be unavoidable, Schmitt concludes, as long as the world's foremost powers are committed to universalist ideologies that imply a rejection of the spatialization of political conflict (GO 90 5; VA 375 85).

At the time of Suleiman's death, the Ottoman Empire was one of the world's foremost powers.

The Victorian era was marked by great cultural change, technological progress, and the establishment of the United Kingdom as one of the world's foremost powers.

The government response to the uprising turned what initially was a call for reform by by both Bahrain's Shia majority and members of the Sunni minority into a proxy tug-of-war between two of the region's foremost powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with the island state paying a heavy price.

Britain was the world's foremost power during much of the 1800s, not the 1900s.

The world's foremost power during much of the 1800s, Britain saw its influence peak by 1870.

Mr Aso was installed as prime minister on Wednesday September 24th after winning the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party, the foremost power of Japan's ruling coalition.

And preserving the precedent set by Ms. Collyer's ruling, and protecting Congress's foremost power — the power of the purse — would do much to restore an important constitutional check and balance.

Nichola is one of the still relatively few women to have reached the top of the pile, and she and her husband, Odey, are the Square Mile's foremost power couple.

Battle of Zenta, (September 11 , 1697, decisive military victory of Austrian forces over an Ottoman army at Zenta (now Senta, Serbia) on the Tisa River during a war (1683 99) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League (Austria Poland Venice Russia), a victory that made Austria the foremost power in central Europe.