7 sentences with “superpowers”

When I was a child, I used to imagine that I had superpowers and that I could fly through the air.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.