With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power.... Of late, because of their power and their apparent success, they have become arrogant.
"The leaders of the most powerful countries and those governments the most powerful countries protect don't find themselves facing arrest warrants from the I.C.C.
Progress on those would not require the world's two most powerful countries to trust each other.
Suddenly allied radicals were steering two of the region's most powerful countries.
"This [the UK] is one of the most powerful countries in the world.
The world's two most powerful countries are involved in an escalating dispute over territory in the South China Sea.
These, the two most powerful countries of the union, are the ones the commission finds hardest to overrule.
They will require difficult steps by Europe's richest and most powerful countries — not just by poor and weak ones.
Just when the world needs leadership from its most powerful countries, our leaders seem to have gone to sleep.
The leaders of the most powerful countries supported business as usual, shamefully putting private profit before people and the planet".
For a long time, however, this inconvenient reality could be largely "outsourced" by the most powerful countries.
