Sentence examples for the paramount power from inspiring English sources

Then as now, the paramount power said the blockade was legal, and that the passengers had no right to land.

The "Basic Annals" gave a dated chronological outline centred on events at the court considered to have been the paramount power at the time.

Under the governor-generalship of Jan Pieterszoon Coen and his successors, particularly Anthony van Diemen (1636 45) and Joan Maetsuyker (1653 78), the company laid the foundations of the Dutch commercial empire and became the paramount power of the archipelago.

Rome's victory over Carthage in the Second Punic War (218 201 bce) had made Rome the paramount power in the Mediterranean basin; an influential Roman noble family's clients (that is, protégés who, in return, gave their patrons their political support) might include kings and even whole nations, besides numerous private individuals.

To the races of India, for whom the legends and records of the past are charged with so intense a meaning, this resumption by the paramount Power of the seat of venerable Empire should at once enforce the continuity and promise the permanency of British sovereign rule over the length and breadth of the country".

This dismal truth was to be more widely felt among Arabs as the United States replaced Britain and France as the paramount power in the Middle East; and securing Israel and the supply of oil joined the expanding list of western strategic interests in the region.

While the Rajputs probably saw the Ghūrids as an equal force competing for paramount power in north India, the Ghūrids had in mind the model of the successor states to the ʿAbbāsid caliphate, the old Iranian Sāsānid empire, and particularly the vast centralized empire of Maḥmūd of Ghazna.

During the 15th and early 16th centuries, no paramount power enjoyed effective control over most of north India and Bengal.

Arguably, the nation most well known to have implemented this type of execution was the British Empire, in its role as paramount power in India, and in particular as a punishment for native soldiers found guilty of mutiny or desertion.

The next month, after Hanoi had established a new government in Phnom Penh, Chinese troops attacked along the North Vietnamese border to drive home the point that China remained the paramount regional power.

"The paramount political power rests with Sonia Gandhi, who holds no cabinet position, while the government is led by an unelected prime minister, who lacks a political base of his own," it said.