How to Use world power in a Sentence

world power

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  • Over the past 50 years, China has evolved to become a world power.
    — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 7 May 2023
  • The visit is seen as the latest move by the EU to save the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
    — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Maybe to indulge yourself that way is going to be to slip from world power.
    — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
  • In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend.
    — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
  • So the nature of war shifted just at the moment when the United States became a world power.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Mr Macron has been trying to salvage the nuclear deal signed by Iran and six world powers in 2015.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Britain at that time, though less powerful than in the heyday of the Empire, was still a major world power.
    — Nikhil Kumar, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Trump campaigned on pulling the United States out of the nuclear agreement that Tehran signed with world powers in 2015.
    — Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
  • Sure enough, the communist world power has steadily taken more and more control in the city.
    — Stephanie Lorenzo, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • That, helped a new nation break free from an old one and develop into a new world power.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
  • What is needed is substantive change to the status quo, not a restoration of U.S. world power.
    — The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The term became widely used in the 1900s, when it was employed by world powers, and its borders have long been subject to debate.
    — Denise Lu, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • In addition, thereare external groups, i.e., the world powers of the era.
    — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 6 Oct. 2019
  • So did art world power couple John Gruen and Jane Wilson.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
  • There was no denying China’s astounding rise as a world power— but at what cost?
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Buttigieg harped on the importance of restoring the credibility of the United States as a world power.
    — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The purpose of the visit was to dial back tensions between the two world powers over a host of issues, including Taiwan and trade.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 21 June 2023
  • Due in large part to colonial exploitation and the trade of enslaved people, the Dutch Republic became a wealthy world power.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • But there is a moral imperative that must guide America and all world powers.
    — Harry Mazadoorian, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Iran and major world powers had signed a nuclear deal the year before, the U.S. had lifted sanctions, and Iran's economy was opening up to the world.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020
  • To be dropped, time machine-style, into a world power’s solemn closing of a grim chapter was, on one level, a theme-adjacent choice of movie, for sure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
  • All these world powers want to be the first to discover water ice on the satellite in situ – in its original state – and not as a result of orbital data.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The message is simple: By hosting the world’s top leaders, India has arrived as a world power, with Modi as the person who took the country there.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Soviet Union had become a major world power weighed down by a weak economy.
    — Marilyn Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • His remarks come amid a rise in tensions between Iran and the United States, which withdrew last year from a 2015 nuclear deal that Tehran struck with world powers.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The developing nation has become a full-fledged world power, reached the moon and Mars, and launched its first aircraft carrier.
    — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
  • China, which is the world's second largest economy, was the only major world power to avoid a recession this year.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Whether czarist or soviet, Russians long for the times in their history when their country truly was a world power.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 12 July 2018
  • Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War and becomes a world power.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Some time ago, India achieved the status of a middle power: a country with a deep global footprint and heavy strategic importance, but not strong enough to ascend to the upper echelon of world powers.
    — Michael Kugelman, TIME, 5 June 2024

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