7 sentences with 'expansionist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word expansionist and other words derived from it.
• « There was a parallel here with the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, who also (during their expansionist phase during the New Kingdom) claimed to be bringing order to a chaotic world at the end of a sword. »
• « The Celts seem to have become more warlike and expansionist and adopted a number of technologies already in use further south, including chariot warfare and coinage. »
• « An expansionist faction of the Roman Senate successfully persuaded the Centurion Assembly to declare war. »
• « What set Spain apart from the other Fascist powers was that Franco was acutely aware of his relative weakness and deliberately avoided an expansionist foreign policy; Hitler once spent an unsuccessful day trying to convince him to join the war once the Second World War began. »
• « In the 1850s, the expansionist impulse among southern whites intensified. Among southern imperialists, one way to push for the creation of an American empire of slavery was through the actions of filibusters, men who conducted unofficial military operations aimed at seizing land in foreign countries or fomenting revolution there. »
• « After his election, President Buchanan, despite his earlier expansionist efforts, denounced the filibuster as the actions of pirates. Filibustering caused an even greater gulf between North and South. »
• « Cuba was not the only territory in the expansionist sights of slaveholders: some focused on Mexico and Central America. »