Noun
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world power (plural world powers)
A nation or state so powerful that it can influence world affairs.
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? Zbigniew Brzezinski
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power. Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength. Harry S. Truman
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power. Penny Lernoux
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history. Noam Chomsky
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. Earl Browder