Sentence examples for from superpower to from inspiring English sources

With The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047, she turns that unsparing focus on the economy, following the present precariousness of the global markets to its logical conclusion – a near future in which the dollar collapses, America is relegated from superpower to pariah state, and civilisation all but breaks down.

It was about watching as Russia was turned from superpower to wreck.

Yet for many Russians, including Putin (who used to run the KGB), the collapse of the Soviet Union wasn't about communism but about seeing Russia reduced from superpower to wreck.

"A couple of attacks has turned America from a superpower to a zero power".

Russians have seen their country reduced from a superpower to a nuclear-armed basket case in a decade and hatred of the west has grown as its role in that process has been rammed home.

With their longitudes crossing latitudes at precise ninety-degree angles, with the topographical yellows of the African veldt and the pale caviar grays of the Caspian Sea, maps returned to my asthmatic lungs small, necessary gusts of breath; they helped make sense of the world spinning relentlessly beneath our feet as we emigrated from one superpower to the other.

In the US, the right has long lamented the dwindling from economic superpower to basket case – exemplified by Pat Buchanan's polemic, State of Emergency: the Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (as opposed, presumably, to the European conquest and extermination of Native Americans).

More important, the successor state of Russia went from hostile superpower to indifferent regional power.

This was humiliating for the Russians, who went from major superpower to poverty-stricken in less than five years.

Such an attack has the potential to turn the US "from being a superpower to a third-world nation practically overnight".

Moscow would not grieve if after the Iraqi debacle the United States were demoted from the status of sole superpower to that of one great power among several.