More importantly, Mr Guha believes that India should not even attempt to become a superpower.
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"I think it was designed to demonstrate to the world that they remain a superpower, " said Hamre.
French fantasies of Paris becoming a superpower, with Jacques Chirac as a modern Sun King, are over.
Yes, they say, they agreed to back America's war: refusing would have made an enemy of a superpower.
Since South Africa is the closest thing Africa has to a superpower, Mr Mbeki's views should carry weight.
Many people in the U. S. believe that China is already a superpower, or will quickly become a superpower.
But this week's death-penalty ruling seems to show that even a superpower can sometimes be swayed, even if just a bit.
Such a capability is the sine qua non of a superpower and is essential to the credibility of our overall national security strategy.
Some cardinals express concerns a superpower pope and the potential for his actions to be viewed as serving the U.S. instead of the church.
I'm just an average American, a cookie-cutter, average, United States-loving American and I want to make sure we stay on top as a superpower economically.
The U.S. may be a superpower, but even with all our technical magic, we cannot make disappear what was never there in the first place.
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In 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union resolved differences over the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, clearing the way for a superpower summit.
In 1990, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade issues.
Louisville's basketball players burn so many calories and have such high metabolisms that they possess a superpower everyone else craves: the ability to snack without repercussions.
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America is still a superpower, so secretaries of state get to see presidents and kings, unlike most other foreign ministers, who meet only their direct counterparts.
After all, Mohammad Najibullah, unloved, isolated and opposed by a superpower, lasted for more than three years after being ditched by the near-bankrupt Soviet Union in 1989.
Fareed Zakaria said in his bestselling book The Post-American World that a superpower is a country that achieves dominance in ideas or ideology, an economic system and military power.
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Some also reflect with bitterness that Kenyans were not specifically targeted by al-Qaeda - those killed were bystanders caught up a battle between a superpower and the Islamist militant network.
It gave them the support of a superpower whilst relieving them of a duty to resolve the quarrel with the Palestinians, even though their own long-term well-being must surely depend on solving that conflict.
You might imagine that it would be easier to call for a return to military strength and national greatness in the United States -- a superpower -- than in the United Kingdom -- a middle ranking power.
Back in 1976, the Soviet Union was a superpower, there was only one kind of Coca-Cola and if a coffee shop tried to charge its customers four bucks for a cup of joe, it would get run out of town.
And the United States I think has something to say about that, because part of what makes us a superpower is because we have people of every walk of life, every background, every religion, and if they've got a good idea and they're willing to work hard, they can succeed.
My opinion is that if we do not sustain this turnaround that we will not sustain our role as a superpower, we will not be able to recapitalize and modernize at the rate that we require, and we will not sustain the all-recruited force, which we refer to as the all-volunteer force, that the nation deserves.
The United States did not become a world superpower with a nonsense monetary policy.
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Even for a profligate superpower, that is a considerable stake, and America's recently expressed dissatisfaction with General Musharraf should be measured against it.
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