Sentence examples for preeminent power from inspiring English sources

Throughout 2008, Republican candidates generally said that the United States must remain the world's preeminent power.

Kagekatsu's defeat marked the ascendancy of the Tokugawa family as the preeminent power in Japan.

Hideyori's suicide at 22 removed the last obstacle to Tokugawa Ieyasu's bid to establish his own family as the preeminent power in Japan.

In the 10th century, however, the Ottonian dynasty in Germany established a new imperial line and became the preeminent power in Latin Europe.

Britain may not have formally colonized much of Latin America, but as the world's preeminent power in the 19th century, its bankers and merchants had a stranglehold on the new nations' economies.

Adolf Hitler eventually became the foremost of these political agitators, branding Erzberger and the leaders of the Social Democrats as the "November criminals" and advocating militaristic and expansionist policies by which Germany could redeem its defeat in the war, gain vengeance upon its enemies, and become the preeminent power in Europe.

In the 20th century the United States emerged as a world power, and since World War II it has been one of the preeminent powers.

Although the story is certainly apocryphal, Carthage nonetheless grew into one of the great cities and preeminent powers of antiquity, and its colonies and entrepôts were scattered throughout the western Mediterranean region.

In the example above, Branford High School students were each representing some of the world's preeminent powers congregating to discuss human rights violations in North Korea.

The United States is no longer the preeminent world power.

Though he says he does not anticipate a war with Russia "it is important that Russia [does] not perceive itself as the undisputed preeminent land power of Central and Eastern Europe".