7 sentences with 'gains'

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« Also, business leaders began to finance the fascists as a kind of guarantee against further communist gains. »
« Thanks to its territorial gains in the Baltic and the building of St Petersburg, Russia was now a decidedly European power, albeit an unusual one. »
« France became a very aggressive power under Louis XIV, who saw territorial gains as essential to his own glory (he had the phrase "The last argument of kings" stamped on his cannons). »
« King Gustavus Adolphus continued to lead a huge Protestant army across the Empire, reversing Catholic gains everywhere and exacting the same kind of brutal treatment against Catholics that had been inflicted on Protestants. »
« With war clouds gathering over Europe in 1914, the Young Turks rallied behind Germany, the only European power that had never threatened Ottoman territories and which promised significant territorial gains in the event of a German-Turkish victory. »
« The Great Depression largely explains the appeal of extremist politics such as Nazism, in that the average person was deeply frightened by what had happened to their world; instead of progress resulting in better living standards, suddenly the hard-won gains of the recent past were completely ruined. »
« That meeting lasted months, thanks in part to the inconvenience of Napoleon's return from Elba and his last stand at Waterloo, but in 1815 it concluded, having rewarded victorious kingdoms with territorial gains and restored conservative monarchs to the thrones of states such as Spain and France itself. »

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