Sentence examples for this expansionist from inspiring English sources

By 1889 this expansionist drive was spent.

This expansionist policy antagonized the Ottomans, who seized the provincial capital of Al-Dirʿiyyah Al-Dirʿiyyah

This expansionist policy, unpopular at the time, led later generations to call Ferry the founder of the French empire.

During this expansionist period, the Bei Wei had to defend their territories against attacks from other northern nomads, and, after many battles, the Wei launched a large-scale offensive against nomads from Outer Mongolia in 429.

This expansionist message – served up to viewers by the slyly named Mr and Mrs Spoon – has hopefully prepared an entire generation for the unpredictable psychological effects of leaving our choked, resource-drained Earth behind forever, as we surely must.

Gaddis credits Secretary of State John Quincy Adams with devising the operational principles supporting this expansionist strategy.

Business conducted like this is expansionist and inexorably cannibalistic.

This repressive, expansionist agenda, first institutionalized in Iran, is likewise the primary objective of fellow Islamic extremists including ISIS.

(In Milton Keynes they feel that the city name is brand enough).This expansionist attitude is reflected in policy.

From this perspective, Israel appears the expansionist, repressive bully.

Blair Gibbs, of the Policy Exchange thinktank, said: "Now is the opportunity to go to the root of this problem which is the expansionist Strasbourg court.