Sentence examples for position as a power from inspiring English sources

Putin was plainly seeking to reassert Russia's position as a power broker in the Middle East, and Obama made no move to block him.

She was extremely happy raising her son and sharing in the mercurial moments of Mr. Haslem's thriving basketball career, including nursing his frequent injuries from his position as a power forward.

The complaining UES shareholders can only accuse him of trying to earn political favors that would boost his position as a power broker in the parliamentary elections later this year and the presidential elections of 2008.

In a bid to offset the loss of production at Kozloduy and restore its position as a major power exporter in the Balkans, Bulgaria revived plans for a second nuclear power plant, though these were later put on hold.

No matter what course Churchill followed in 1940, Britain's ability to maintain its position as a world power was over.

In Charles XII's reign, Sweden lost its position as a great power.

France has always sought a preferred position as a former power in Lebanon and Syria, complicating the effort to pressure Syria.

But it has been the screenwriters' strike that may have finally solidified her position as a Hollywood power broker.

The move is part of a nationalistic drive to increase the country's benefits from its natural resources and cement its position as a global power.

Cecilia Rouse, an economics professor at Princeton, discusses how the nation's dropout rate undermines its position as a global power.

We were all hard-nosed, national security analysts and we began to question the war because it looked like a stalemate that would seriously affect our position as a great power around the world.