6 sentences with 'superpowers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word superpowers and other words derived from it.
• « As the arms race between the superpowers continued, with a further escalation during the 1980s, both sides concluded several treaties that also limited the pace of nuclear weapons production. »
• « It was either American aid or Soviet power that guided the post-war reconstruction of Europe, and both superpowers proved more than capable of making policy decisions for the countries within their respective spheres of influence. »
• « Many in France and Britain in particular thought that their colonies could somehow keep them on a par with the superpowers in terms of global power and, in a sense, relevance. »
• « Simultaneously, the Cold War became the overarching framework for conflict around the world, sometimes playing a central role in the internal conflicts of countries hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away from any of the superpowers themselves. »
• « The main factors for this pessimism in post-war art and philosophy were the devastation of the war itself, the threat of nuclear war between the superpowers and the decline of Europe's power on the world stage. »
• « This vision of a united Europe was originally conceived largely in the hope of creating a power bloc to rival the two Cold War superpowers, but it also embraced a moral vision of an advanced and rational economic and political system, in contrast to the conflicts that had so often characterised Europe in the past. »