Sentence examples for war superpower from inspiring English sources

But it was rather less wise for the leader of a cold war superpower.

The remaining cold war superpower, the United States, is slowly squaring up to the emerging behemoth, China, in a sphere in which Beijing has a distinct advantage: cyberspace.

Iranians are not alone in subscribing to conspiracy theories, but their allure is deeply rooted in Iran's experience of European exploitation and cold war superpower intervention.

The broader international dynamics of Cold War superpower competition are decades gone, but both Moscow and Cairo are finding new benefits in an old relationship. .

The United States is using Syrian airspace to lead a campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State (IS), and a greater Russian presence raises the prospect of the Cold War superpower foes encountering each other on the battlefield.

Even as the Enterprise cruised the distant reaches of our galaxy, the show was distinctly a creature of its moment, of the tensions released by the rise of the civil rights movement and by the Cold War superpower standoff.

Nuclear weapons were dangerous enough in the hands of the cold war superpowers, which came to a mutual understanding that they could not afford to use them.

Indeed, proof that the world had changed dramatically could be seen by the agreement between the old cold war superpowers on how to respond to Iraq's aggression.

Some of them defend Mr. Habre, arguing that guilt cannot be assigned to African leaders of his generation because they were merely creations and pawns of cold war superpowers.

Iraq is not Chechnya, and there is little comparison between the United States military and Russian security forces, but both cold war superpowers are bogged down by Islamic insurgencies in an alien land.

The complications and contradictions of the Yugoslav state, with its relative freedoms and "utopian consumerism", its non-aligned status between the cold war superpowers of east and west, are documented here through art that, as often as it is critical of the status quo, had its own kinds of socialist and revolutionary fervour.