Sentence examples for land powers from inspiring English sources

The world, for Dugin, is divided between conservative land powers (Russia) and libertine maritime powers (the U.S. and the U.K). — Eternal Rome and Eternal Carthage.

Sparta was leader of an alliance of independent states that included most of the major land powers of the Peloponnese and central Greece, as well as the sea power Corinth.

In this respect, he argued, sea power was very different from land power: there was a vast difference between first- and second-rank sea powers but little difference between such land powers.

Following their victory over Napoleon in 1815, Russia and Austria had entered the 19th century as the dominant land powers; by century's end each had been weakened by the very forces that once made it great.

Thus Epaminondas who had been praised in his time as an idealist and liberator is today largely remembered for a decade (371 BC to 362 BC) of campaigning that sapped the strength of the great land powers of Greece and paved the way for the Macedonian conquest.

This was the rallying cry of the Brexiters: we would wrench ourselves free from one cloistered and cobwebbed continent to feel the brave salt tang of the oceans again; we would leave the land powers of Europe to sink into their common bog and stride out alone to face the world.

But it is primarily a land power.

Firms are miffed by a lack of land, power shortages and a surplus of red tape.

"Degrading land power capabilities and putting ground formations at risk for the sake of cost cutting is to call into question the relevance of land power".

When he turns to today's world, land power suddenly fades to black.

When Athenian land power declined, Phocis wavered again and became an ally of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (431 404 bce).