Sentence examples for rich power from inspiring English sources

They cited China's portrayal of itself as a newly confident and rich power on the world stage, a posture that seems threatening to Americans and Europeans.

As much as the Masters would like to stage-manage everything in its leafy-green, mythical utopia where everyone is polite, the world is still segregated according to how the rich power brokers want it and usually even the flowers bloom on cue, it can't stage-manage what happens in the actual tournament, no matter how much it wants to.

Circuit boys, gear collectors, and rich power gays inhabit the expensive walls of what is slowly but surely becoming SoHKi: South of Hell's Kitchen.

He's among those who argue that the newly rich powers should be embedded quickly and snugly in international institutions such as the G8, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization.

Here are the seven pillars of wisdom that ought to be the axioms of U.S.-China policy: • China is a poor, proud and touchy country, which throughout the 19th century was repeatedly humiliated and exploited by the rich powers.

The underlying assumption of the Trudeau government seems to be that the fortunes of the mythical middle class are best served by supplicating rich power-players.

China is set on protecting Mr Kim, and both China and Russia are pathetically reluctant to clamp even mild sanctions on a rising, energy-rich power such as Iran.If the world is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the Russians and Chinese will have to give up some serious interests in order to cause real pain to proliferators.

Roosevelt was assured that the United States would emerge from the war the strongest and richest power on earth.

Maps are about power: the rich, powerful and victorious determine place-names, just as they write history.

The list of outside powers that have tried to shape the region's future is long — from the United States and its European allies to the Russian-Iran axis and many of the Middle East's oil-rich powers.

The corporate system -- which seems increasingly unmoored from any values other than power and profit -- is working systematically to shift power and wealth from average Americans to itself, i.e. to the mightiest and richest powers in our society.