Sentence examples for secondary power from inspiring English sources

However, there is still one field in which Germans don't excel: in global politics, the country is a secondary power.

Qin remained a secondary power until after the great reforms of Xiaogong (361 338 bce) and Shang Yang (Wei Yang).

Moreover, Ms. Fink said, current regulations do not require high-rise residential buildings to install emergency generators or to have a secondary power source that enables the elevators to run in the event of a power outage.

The failure of both the primary and secondary power sources of coolant for nuclear reactors at the Devonport dockyard in Plymouth on 29 July last year followed warnings in previous years of just such a situation.

By the Treaty of Nystad (September 10 [August 30, O.S.], 1721) the eastern shores of the Baltic were at last ceded to Russia, Sweden was reduced to a secondary power, and the way was opened for Russian domination over Poland.

I don't think the United States will ever become a secondary power in my lifetime.

Since devolution we've flexed our legislative muscles sparingly, using secondary powers or tagging welsh provisions on the back of UK bills.

Meanwhile, as Sachs argues, new great powers such as China and India (and troublesome secondary powers, such as Iran) have to be accommodated into the international system, preferably without world war.

However, as the analyzed frequencies are limited to 0.5 Hz, the existence of the secondary power-law indices at higher frequencies cannot clearly be concluded.

With Europe reduced to a collection of secondary powers after World War II, and the shift in trade patterns, the North Atlantic was no longer the single key to anything.

Figure 5 Percentage of channel realizations yielding an overlay rate R 2 larger than the underlay rate R 2 und. Figure 6 Averaged rates R 2 und (underlay) and R 2 (overlay) for different secondary powers and transmit antenna configurations.