Sentence examples for the foremost power from inspiring English sources

Mr Aso was installed as prime minister on Wednesday September 24th after winning the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party, the foremost power of Japan's ruling coalition.

Battle of Zenta, (September 11 , 1697, decisive military victory of Austrian forces over an Ottoman army at Zenta (now Senta, Serbia) on the Tisa River during a war (1683 99) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League (Austria Poland Venice Russia), a victory that made Austria the foremost power in central Europe.

And yet during the period of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) Elizabeth was one of the foremost power brokers for the Protestant cause in Europe.

But Roosevelt was convinced he could work with Stalin, that he could contain Soviet aspirations even as he continued to make America the foremost power in the world.

Britain was the world's foremost power during much of the 1800s, not the 1900s.

The world's foremost power during much of the 1800s, Britain saw its influence peak by 1870.

Nichola is one of the still relatively few women to have reached the top of the pile, and she and her husband, Odey, are the Square Mile's foremost power couple.

During the 18th century Great Britain became the foremost maritime power of Europe, and the Admiralty sponsored many developments in charting as well as improvements in navigation facilities.

After all, a couple of centuries earlier it had been higher up the social-development scale than Britain, or indeed anywhere else in the West.And why, come to that, was Britain, rather than China, the foremost naval power of the age?

At the beginning of the century, it commanded a world-wide empire as the foremost global power.

At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power.