world power
a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
Origin of world power
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How to use world power in a sentence
The decline of America as both an ideal and a world power is marked by such moments.
That awakening, he says, led to a 180-page term paper on the balance of world power.
Moon Colonies, Penguin Bites, and John Wayne: Why We’ll Miss Newt Gingrich | Ben Jacobs | April 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in gaining the glories of the world—power, fame and fortune—Gibson seemed to lose himself.
He is the author of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the U.N. in the Era of American world power.
In half their great effort against the world-power of Britain they had utterly failed.
History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) | John Richard Green
From the first the mind of Buonaparte had been set on a struggle with this growing world-power.
History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) | John Richard Greenworld power or downfall was their formula; it gave their antagonists no alternative but a fight to a conclusive end.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsWhy does it always appear the minute a crowd is sufficiently powerful to dream of world-power?
The Behavior of Crowds | Everett Dean MartinThe needle of the compass of progress has always pointed west; at least always since the Medo-Persian was the world-power.
Quiet Talks with World Winners | S. D. Gordon
British Dictionary definitions for world power
a state that possesses sufficient power to influence events throughout the world
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