Sentences with phrase «world military powers»

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Without electricity from civilian power plants, the most advanced military in world history could be crippled.

The proposed rise in the Pentagon budget to $ 603 billion comes as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world's strongest military power.

Toward creditor nations, however, America relates as the world's most Highly Indebted Military Power by refusing to raise its own interest rates or taxes, or to permit key U.S. industries to be sold off.

Setting aside the shortcomings of the Belt and Road concept, the «OBOR hype» around the world points to a real and fundamental trend — the ascent of China as a truly global economic and military power.

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«Since 1945,» he writes, «Americans have insisted on acquiring and maintaining military supremacy, a «preponderance of power» in the world rather than a balance of power with other nations.»

The military powers are not power realities in themselves, but they influence every aspect of the human life in a given society and in the world, for militarization of politics, economic structures, and cultural values is the pervasive phenomenon.

The transition from a superpower duopoly, in terms of military power, to a world monopoly, however, has had, among other effects during the 1990s, that of destabilising the fragile balance upon which the international multilateralism of the United Nations had been able to function, well or badly, during the 1960s and 1970s (following the «defrosting» and decolonisation, both the results of social, cultural, democratic and national struggle).

In a world as dangerous as ours, a judicious use of military power is probably unavoidable, I did not oppose the war in the Persian Gulf: annexation by force must be reversed.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

In 1967 the Christians in the Muslim country begin to immigrate, escaping the prosecutions, the Muslim were glade to see the natives leaving, but they realized that if they would move in large numbers to the USA, Canada and Europe, they will have larger control of the world, the technology and military power and eventually they can force their believe and convert the world, they are now hear, and successfully working on their plan and some day they will master their missions..

God is not a Third World military dictator who seizes power and then arranges to have himself elected president with a landslide, and by means of divine manipulation, rigging and bribery.

My problem is the kneejerk hatred of American power which won two world wars and the cold war and the fact that we yes WE protected Europe for years and still without our military presence many of the countries of Europe (who by the way will not arm and participate) would be overrun first by the USSR and later by Islamofascists.

These papal priorities, implicitly or explicitly, strike a contrast with Kirill, whose nationalistic - ecclesial ideology of the «Russian World» bolsters Putin's military aggression, whose ministry has been more than susceptible to the power politics of deep church - state entanglement.

In a world where political problems are thought of and worked upon within a frame of reference whose coordinates are nationalism and military power, these ecology - oriented organizations are regarded as peripheral.

One way of clarifying the difference between this model and a world government is to consider the distribution of military and police power.

Collectively they are the core of the tangled network of business, religious, trade union, military, and political organizations and relations which together constitute the power structure in the world.

Our wealth and military power produce affability on the world's face and curses in its heart.

The idea that the U.S. was an unquestioned military colossus athwart the world, which no power or people could effectively oppose, was hubristic nonsense certain to get the country into deep trouble — as it did — and bring the U.S. Army to the point of collapse, as happened in Vietnam and may well happen again in Iraq (and Afghanistan).

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

The Bush administration is loaded with policymakers who have long maintained that the U.S. should use its overwhelming economic and military power to remake the world in the image of Western capitalist democracy.

After the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, a number of hardline anticommunists began arguing that the U.S. must use its military and economic power to remake the world and put down Americas remaining enemies.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

Much of Western civilization has been introduced to the Muslim world by haughty merchants who were assisted by the military forces of colonial powers, causing the people of the East to draw back into their own world.

With the end of the cold war, the USA was the only remaining super power with enormous military and economic power such as the world has not seen before.

Beginning with the changes in Eastern Europe, the world is in the process of a «re-constellation» which is characterized by the breakdown of the cold war ideological polar structure, the realignment of the military powers, the reordering of the economic powers, and the rapid globalization of communication and cultural life.

Isn't it amazing that though Israel has always been a relatively small nation, and few in number, they are still one of the world powers in military, science and economics?

The political, military, police intelligence and information network of governments; the economic information network of transnational corporate powers; the global media; and the religious - cultural networks of world religions wield powerful influence over information and communication throughout the world.

Spain and England, which had once sought to maintain world class blue sea navies, abandoned those aspirations to be world class military powers.

There are treaties and treatises out there that inform efforts to articulate what constitutes international law, but there is no world legislature out there, and there is no court with the power to issue decisions to any country in the world that will be observed without the use of military force on a wide array of issues.

Ministers have ruled the UK must rely more on «soft power» than military might to shape the world we want.

So in my understanding, Moscow simply informs Pyongyang that it can no longer use its veto power, nor can it provide with military help in case if the rest of the world decides to arrange a military intervention to the «North Korea».

One of the questions facing European policy - makers today is thus how Europe can exert influence in an increasingly globalised world despite its comparative decline in military strength and economic capacity vis - a-vis the new emerging powers.

As the world's second and third largest economies, and neighboring naval powers with expanding military capabilities, the relationship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is arguably one of the most significant in the international realm.

«Such,» they said, «is the talismanic power of nuclear weaponry that few politicians seem willing to trust the electorate with a real debate about the military capacity we need in the world of today.»

By demonstrating Russia's ability to project military power on the world stage, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rallied nationalist sentiments around his government.

«As we have seen in the U.S., no country is immune to the global financial problems and even the world's biggest military power is now grappling with how to make defence cuts and reform for the future.»

«Part of the appeal of the UK is its cultural reach, the things that make it a force on the world stage but aren't about military power.

This finding at the dawn of World War II was the start of a scientific and military race to understand and use this new atomic source of power.

The device, known as a pulsed - power generator, will be the largest of its kind in the civilian world, smaller only than half - a-dozen or so similar devices in military laboratories in the US, Russia and Europe.

Moreover, again, how is it that a bunch of random Chinese ER doctors seem to know more about the power and perils of CPH4 than, say, the pharmaceutical industry, the military - industrial complex, and the actual global crime syndicate that is smuggling the drug around the world?

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

I had a very political day and a half when I caught in succession Frieda Mock's «Anita: Speaking Truth to Power,» about Anita Hill; «The World According to Dick Cheney,» directed by R.J. Cutler and Greg Finton; Alex Gibney's marvelous «We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks»; and Richard Rowley's eye - opening «Dirty Wars,» which follows reporter / whistle - blower Jeremy Scahill's investigations into covert military operations conducted by the United States in more than 70 countries, including some that are supposed American allies.

Over the course of 2016, they travel the world attempting to solidify and «lock - in» policies that they believe will define their legacy, promote diplomacy over large - scale military action, and fundamentally alter how the US government confronts questions of war and peace, as they prepare to hand over the machinery of American power to a new administration.

With the end of the 1st World War in 1918, the United States amounted to the dominant economic power condition of the planet without, however, placing it as a great military power that only happened after the 2nd World War on the side of the Soviet Union.

The men and women of the merchant marine power the world's largest economy and strengthen our ties with trading partners across the globe, all while supporting our military by shipping troops and supplies wherever they are needed.

[citation needed] The ZF «sliding pins and cams» became available, [1] and one example was the Type B - 70 used during the Second World War in the military VWs (Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen), although technically this was not a limited - slip differential, but a system composed of two freewheels, which sent the whole of the engine power to the slowest - turning of the two wheels.

«The truck in question was the 1946 - 1968 Dodge Power Wagon, model WDX, a new multipurpose vehicle born from Dodge's experience building four - wheel - drive trucks for American and allied military forces in World War II.

Introduced after World War II, the Dodge Power Wagon was Dodge's civilian version of a four - wheel - drive military vehicle.

Military needs during World War II for easier steering on heavy vehicles boosted the need for power assistance on armored cars and tank - recovery vehicles for the British and American armies.