Sentence examples for northern powers from inspiring English sources

Outside the dynastic royal domain (centred around Paris) the foremost northern powers were Flanders, Normandy, Anjou, Brittany, Blois-Champagne, and Burgundy.

The two northern powers have something of a rivalry — albeit the one-sided kind, as Monterrey has walked away with the silverware every time when it was all on the line.

From 1216 the Hoysala kings obtained lands in the Chola country, former Chola feudatories threw off their allegiance, northern powers intervened, and the upheaval facilitated the Pandya conquest of the Chola country in 1257.

That the European Union's northern powers aren't willing to bail Greece out entirely by themselves, but are relying on the International Monetary Fund to kick in up to $20 billion, shows that there are limits to how far they will go toward the dream of a unified supercontinent.

The losses suffered by the Dutch Navy in ships, men and morale gave the Royal Navy superiority in the North Sea, a position enhanced by the disruption the battle caused to French negotiations for an alliance with what historian Edward Pelham Brenton describes as the "Northern Powers" of Scandinavia.

Many of the northern power brokers are also believed to be involved in the drug trade.

With its northern power base, Labour is especially susceptible to such rebukes.

"I'll be 55 this year," says Gary Rowbottom, a technical officer at the Northern power station.

And when the Northern power station shuts, that's it for the coal industry in the region.

Although Prussia aided Bavaria in the suppression of a revolt in the Palatinate (1849), Maximilian refused an alliance with the northern power.

Its critics say it meant millions of poor Mexicans became servants of a northern power that exported its 2008 financial crisis and not much else.