Sentence examples for metropolitan power from inspiring English sources

In his relationship with Michel he became part of a glamorous metropolitan power couple.

For much of that century, the city and the valley have been locked in an unequal partnership, metropolitan power to rural colony.

Los Angeles, one of the few regions not facing either power cuts or price rises, is drawing envious glances for its supposedly "outmoded" metropolitan power company, the object of scorn a few years ago.

It's an odd place to encounter the Master of the Queen's Music, just about as far away from the centres of metropolitan power where he still likes to cause as much controversy as he can.

Primakov also urged Yeltsin to spend more effort on building good relations with the former Soviet states, a policy that western hawks claimed was a return to Soviet expansionism, but which Primakov saw as the natural responsibility of a metropolitan power towards areas where large numbers of its former citizens still lived.

Some islands, namely those belonging to American Samoa (USA), French Polynesia (France), Tokelau (New Zealand), Wallis & Futuna (France, Guamm (USA), Northern Mariana Islands (USA), and New Caledonia (France) are governed by a metropolitan power.

The same three metropolitan powers were the responsible authorities, but Australia continued to provide the actual administration.

In view of the division of labour that existed between the colonial countries and the metropolitan powers in colonial days, it is not surprising that until the 1970s the economies of the independent countries of Asia often were more competitive than complementary.

The coming of the metropolitan powers signals a convenient point at which we may speculate that important new possibilities opened up in Arabic logic.

For metropolitan powers still much can be done in supporting capacity building in Pacific Island countries and helping the economies to proposer so that climate change migrants easier can be absorbed by expanding labour markets in Pacific Island countries.

This is a particularly rich intervention from London's own blond bombshell, Boris Johnson, given the time he previously devoted to the importance of getting the whingeing Jocks to realise how lucky they were to be joined at the hip to metropolitan brain power, enterprise and major trading partners.