Sentences with 'jockeyed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word jockeyed and other words derived from it.
• « Throughout the century, these states jockeyed for position and power not only in Europe, but also overseas: entire wars were fought between the Great Powers thousands of miles away from Europe itself. »
• « The period following German unification, from 1871 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, was a period in which the great European powers jockeyed for position, increased their respective military might and jostled for overseas territory ahead of their rivals. Gone were the days of the Congress System and the balance of power based on the desire for peace. »
• « With the Congressional System a dead letter after the Crimean War, and with the wars of Italian and German unification demonstrating the stakes of intra-European conflict, all the major European powers jockeyed for position on the world stage during the second half of the nineteenth century. »