She did take the view that, as a world power, America should be confident about its native artistry.
The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
And the Philippines, a country not generally regarded as a world power, would hold the solution to this crisis.
Some say the expulsion of these industrious Moors set in motion the decline of Spain as a world power.
China is staking its claims as a world power both economically and politically, focusing particularly on its own neighbourhood, Asia.
Yet Russia's new national-security strategy, published in May, talks about the country's ambitions as a world power, but, except for North Korea, signally fails to mention the Asia-Pacific region.
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British officials chose photo opportunities for Mr Miliband that would highlight China's importance as a responsible world power, at a training facility near Beijing for UN peacekeepers, and a factory making solar panels.
None saw Britain as a modern world power free of the psychological burdens of history.
British industry lost its focus on developing the latest technology, thus solidifying the country's status as a declining world power.
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While it may be true that the archetypal chief executive is driven as much by a desire for power and to amaze the world with his business prowess as by a desire to be rich, human nature makes it certain that some will be guided by meaner motives.
It saw the world as a 19th-century power game: a gain for the West meant a loss for Russia.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, told an Arab newspaper earlier this month that Russia has returned to the world as a strong and confident power.
The United States may have the most generating power in the world, but as it deliberates how to make nuclear power a bigger part of the country's energy future, Eastern Europe and Asia are racing ahead.
But the preparations for convertibility are also a sign of Chinese strength, as China, now the world's second-largest national economy, recognizes that as a global power it must have a global currency.
Chavez and his revolution are so powerful that various governments in South America, including that of Brazil, a rising world power, viewed the victory of Chavez in the October elections as a necessary condition for the continuity of regional integration.
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The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question after the Fukushima disaster in March, when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear reactors, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
Before Fukushima, a "nuclear renaissance" -- as it was termed in the press -- seemed well underway, except for this point: Nuclear power, as a total of world energy supply, has been in steady decline for the past decade.
In spite of a devastating defeat in World War II, Japan had emerged from the rubble to be again acknowledged a world power on par with the strongest nations of the West, and accepted as the world's second-largest economy after the United States.
Leaders of respected environmental outfits such as Environmental Defence and the World Resources Institute have recently made positive noises about nuclear power as part of a response to global warming.
The event was intended to mark China's reintegration into the world, and re-emergence as a great power.
The first occasion demonstrated to the world that Japan had arrived as a legitimate military power with its stunning defeat of the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5.
Out of power, Mubarak entered a world as foreign to him as another planet.
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First, the United States holds a uniquely powerful position in the world as its foremost financial power.
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This would not only be good for the region but also for Brazil as it aspires to be a regional leader and ultimately a world power.
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The future of clean tech is already looking bright, as the world's solar power capacity just hit a record 101 gigawatts, and researchers found a new way to charge batteries by harvesting ambient electromagnetic waves from thin air.
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The U.S. used its power as occupier after World War II to impose a constitution on Japan which forbade possession of a military.
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But it would be extraordinary if America sacrificed its position as the world's leading military power as the result of a legislative accident.
He is convinced that American power must be harnessed as a force for good in the world and that it has uniquely fallen to him be the agent that pushes America towards constructive engagement in support of liberal democratic values and decency.
If Facebook truly becomes the social network hub of the world then that will end up being regulated as a utility just like the power companies have been.
That's great news as I prepare for my upcoming trip to Spain to cover Mobile World Congress (I leave tonight), since my habits as a power user will be amplified during my weeklong venture to the other side of the Atlantic.
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