7 sentences with 'supremacy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word supremacy and other words derived from it.
• « In one fell swoop, the myth of French military supremacy, a legacy of the first Napoleon, was destroyed, and Europeans were confronted with the fact that a new military power had asserted its strength in its place. »
• « Tsar Nicholas I declared his three principles of rule in 1832: autocracy, orthodoxy and nationality, the last of the three serving the idea of Russian supremacy over his huge empire (and the other ethnic groups present in it). »
• « Instead of a rational political order, there was a kind of guiding principle that one Nazi party member described as 'working for the Führer': trying to determine the 'spirit' of Nazism and abiding by it rather than following specific rules or laws. The one unshakeable basic principle was the personal supremacy of the Führer, which was supposed to embody Nazism itself. »
• « The exploits of the most famous Spanish explorers have provided Western civilisation with a narrative of European supremacy and Indian savagery. »
• « The war also spilled over into Europe, as France and Britain sought to gain supremacy in the Atlantic world. »
• « The British believed that the British subjects in North America, as the main beneficiaries of Britain's war for world supremacy, should certainly shoulder their share of the financial burden. »
• « Despite this unequal distribution of wealth, non-slaveholding whites shared a common set of values with white planters, most notably a belief in white supremacy. »