Pope Adrian IV and his successors demanded recognition of their religious authority over all Christians everywhere and sought superiority over the Byzantine Emperor; they were not at all willing to fall into a state of dependence from one emperor to the other.
What, then, was the value of the pledge President Ronald Reagan made at the Geneva summit meeting in 1985, when he joined me in solemnly stating that our two nations would not seek military superiority?
Despite his anti-Communist views, he was a strong advocate of a United States-Soviet rapprochement, and in his final years at NATO, he chided the Reagan administration for seeking military superiority over Moscow at the expense of arms control agreements.
To compensate for their quantitative weaknesses, the Muslim states sought qualitative superiority.
America should seek to maintain military superiority in the Western Pacific.
Thus, Jimeno and Thomas (2013) seek to demonstrate the superiority of firm-level bargaining from an unemployment perspective.
As with people getting separated or divorced, we have an insatiable desire to seek a sense of superiority over the other person.
Time and again, in this presidential round as in the last, Republican candidates for the highest office in the land seek to establish their superiority over others by documenting their record as tax cutters and as pruners of government programs.
Ambassador Hu Xiaodi accused Washington of seeking "unilateral absolute superiority" in strategic arms to enable it to engage in "nuclear blackmail" against other nuclear powers.
Sin Son-ho, the North Korean representative to the United Nations, said during a United Nations conference on nuclear disarmament that the United States sought "absolute nuclear superiority" and had no "moral justifications" to lecture other countries about proliferation, according to North Korea's state media.
While other nations seek to achieve economic and technological superiority, the United States aspires to win the Cold War.
