Sentence examples for minor power from inspiring English sources

Britain, England, was a minor power — saying this gave a certain blasphemous pleasure.

"We are not a minor power in the Middle East, we are a significant player," he said.

As such, it was an attempted return to earlier form, of close social observation and minor power plays.

He stressed that two other minor power failures last week were not connected to the problem on Saturday.

We'd already had a few minor power cuts lasting several minutes, when we lost power for nearly 24 hours with the temperature outside at -55.4C.

Much of the episode is a very shrewdly written series of minor power plays and exchanges among McAvoy's staff as they jockey for position, try to decide whether to leave him for another anchor, and so on.

But the customer service department could offer the Treo's unhappy owners only minor power-saving tips.

The preliminary round will feature eight teams considered to be minor powers based on seedings following the 1995 world championship tournament.

Instead, he concludes that the principals "decided to reorganise and run Europe by accord between themselves, without reference to the minor powers".

On May 18 India detonated her first nuclear device, there by weakening the constraints that have restricted the use of nuclear weapons by the major powers & taking a first step toward possible proliferation of nuclear weapons among the minor powers.

Morton Abramowitz, the head of the International Crisis Group, an independent conflict-prevention organization, and the journalist Samantha Power put it more tersely: "Major and minor powers alike are committed only to stop killing that harms their national interests".