Sentence examples for former superpower from inspiring English sources
It is certainly conceivable that EU enlargement could reactivate strategic rivalry with the former superpower.
For Russia, there is the poignant realization that a former superpower now plays second fiddle to China in an "emerging" group.
Vodka is the glue that binds Russia, but it is also a major cause of ill-health in the former superpower.
And the vote opened up the field to the former superpower of Eastern Europe and to a rising financial power in the Middle East.
This means that the United States will be free to concentrate on East Asia – where the real action is happening – while a former superpower exhausts itself.
Many Nato members are becoming increasingly worried about the risk of being sucked into a wider conflict with the former superpower.
Today Mr. Hadley, 54, is coordinating President Bush's efforts to convince the Atlantic allies and Russia that scrapping the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty for a shared missile defense makes sense for superpowers, former superpowers and skeptical allies.
Nuclear-winter theory now shows not only that the superpowers still threaten the existence of the rest of the world, but that the newly-emergent nuclear powers threaten the former superpowers, perhaps not with extinction, but with serious consequences including drought and famine.
Rather than showing more cooperation on the issues that divide the former superpowers, Weiss speculated, Russia might react by resisting U.S. efforts to curtail the Iran nuclear program or seek to strengthen its ties with Tehran.
But the thousands of weapons in the hands of the current or former superpowers, the United States and Russia, draw less notice and controversy in our country than the perceived threat from other nations or from terrorists.
Russia has been a key supplier of air defense weapons to Syria, raising the prospect of further damage to the former superpowers' strained relations in the event Russian military equipment is used against U.S. forces attacking Syrian targets.
