Sentences with phrase «leading military power»

There is increased pressure on the government on the issue of their defence cuts, amid fears by generals and reports this week that cuts could mean the end of Britain's status as a leading military power.

It is a crucial American ally not only because Israel is the leading military power in the Middle East and a technological powerhouse with more venture capital investment than the whole of Europe (the instrumental dimension of Augustinian realism) but also because of the deep ties between the American founding and the Jewish religion and the strong bonds between Israelis and America's 6.4 million Jews (the moral dimension).

This is why the first two democratic nations, the Netherlands and Britain after its 1688 revolution, developed the most active capital markets and proceeded to become leading military powers.

Not exact matches

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A nation that has never known anything but military victory has recently twice had to settle for a draw, not because we have really been beaten, but because our very intoxication with our own power has led us into untenable situations where the cost of «victory» became so great that it was no longer tolerable.

Of course, Obama and Trump are characterized by wholly different domestic agendas, political leadership styles and public rhetoric, but they are also both US presidents, who govern the leading economic and military global power, confronted by largely the same foreign policy problems and endowed with the same bureaucratic structures and military capabilities.

He said a high powered military team led by the chief of army staff has been dispatched to the area to gather facts on what happened.

The junior officers were members of an underground political group within the Ghana Armed Forces called the Free Africa Movement (FAM) that they formed in October 1970 with the objective of seizing power in Ghana 1984 and using the country as the nucleus of a military - led push for the unification of the African continent under a single federal government.

Dr. Kofi Abrefah Busia who was elected in the 1969 elections was also ousted from power in 1972 by an I.K Acheampong led military junta which also suffered in a palace coup in 1978 led by FWK Akuffo.

Neither U.S. military power nor regional balancing has stopped Beijing from seeking to displace core components of the U.S. - led system.

The US is in a still tense relationship with Russia, and China is going through a power struggle culminating in a crisis and military uprising led by one Admiral Chang, who is the antagonist this time around.

And just when you might get sick of fighting the creatures, the game pulls out that familiar Alien plot twist of the military exploiting the xenomorphs, leading you to fight off brigades of corrupt soldiers and their power - loaders.

While the country's longstanding former President Robert Mugabe was being ousted through a military - led coup, Chiurai was exhibiting his politically - driven work, which combines art historical imagery with references from popular culture and archival material to explore the visual language and tropes that help construct myths, history, and ultimately power.

In addition, the current interest among military planners in projects such as solar power — spurred partly by the wish to reduce the risks involved in shipping fuel to troops in the field — could lead to commercial applications, the researchers state.