15 examples of world-power in sentences

Prayer is the true World-Power.

He is the one who is adjusting the new world-powers and the new world-relations, over-seeing the development of our country, and planning for its laws and commerce.

For Germany, since 1898, for the first time in her history, has been in a position, and has made the choice, to become a World-Power.

But besides the maintenance of what she had, Germany was now ambitious to secure her share of "world-power."

"Almost all the young people from one end of the Empire to the other have had brought before them in the course of their studies the dilemma which Bernhardi summed up to his readers in the three words 'world-power or decadence.'

Dreams of a European Empire, of infinite expansion, of world-power, floated before the national consciousness.

Prussia fights for conquest, for world-power, and makes docile Germany imagine that she is fighting for these also; but what Germany is really fighting for, blindly and gropingly, is freedom and unity.

England blocked the way to the growth of Germany from a European into a World-power; Germany, to preserve intact for German culture the surplus of the growing population, must be a World-power or perish.

England blocked the way to the growth of Germany from a European into a World-power; Germany, to preserve intact for German culture the surplus of the growing population, must be a World-power or perish.

Reason or the Idea is not merely a demand, a longed for ideal, but a world-power which accomplishes its own realization.

Weltpolitik, with its vaunting boast of "World-power or Downfall," was meaningless to him and his comrades gathered in the beer- gardens on a Sunday.

In the last days of November Calais became the symbol of a struggle for world-power.

And world-power, too, there in the hollow of a nation's hand, to throw in whatever direction she pleased.

A race of this type is a potential world-power of incalculable magnitude.

Because this poor Prince of a tiny country does not begrudge the heir to a World-Power his fleet, his army, nor his treasures; but he refuses to yield one treasure to him except at the price of his heart's bloodand that treasure is the hand of Princess Wilhelmine, whom he loves.

15 examples of  world-power  in sentences