Sentence examples for principal power from inspiring English sources

The Frankish state was now the principal power in the West.

The Fed's principal power is its control over the supply of money.

By the 1840s he had made Zanzibar the principal power in eastern Africa and the commercial capital of the western Indian Ocean.

Like Rogue, the Marvel Comics hero whose principal power lies in absorbing the enemy's strength, the Spurs always seem to have their hands full.

In the absence of any broader political, economic or social reforms, local military leaders have managed to remain the principal power brokers in the rural areas of eastern Congo.

It is everywhere deemed the world's principal power – save for in France, where voters already give that title by a 37%-34 37%-34to China – but it is also true that it is everywhere expected to surrender this status soon.

The most important ritual was the Sun Dance, because the Sun was one of the principal powers.

In the Declaration of London, 1909, the principal powers, including Great Britain, recognized and formalized the right of neutral convoy.

Everybody was talking about disarmament, and President Harding was inviting the principal powers to a summit conference.

But why not make the treaty multilateral, and have it signed by "all the principal powers of the world"?

China and the other principal powers seek less to overthrow the existing international order than to join it or something like it.