Sentences with phrase «over weaker nations»

America has always been a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.

Niebuhr found in Western history a recurring pattern in which strong nations exercised power over weaker nations.

Not exact matches

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

While community banks have been instrumental in helping the nation recover from the financial crisis, the recovery that began in 2009 has averaged a growth rate of just over 2 percent — the weakest rebound in the post — World War II era.

They wrestled in agony over the spectacle of a mighty, aggressive nation over-running the weak and the innocent.

GBENGA ADENIJI and SIMON UTEBOR write about the hideous face of cultism which is dangerously polluting the academic milieu in the nation's public secondary schools Looking forlorn and weak, Miss Lillian Friday, a 16 - year - old pupil of Community Secondary School, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has yet to get over her -LSB-...]

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

In addition to safety and security concerns, over 100 languages are spoken across the nation and weak supply channels pose roadblocks.