Neither side, however, may be ready to assume that superpower role just yet--and not only because the burden of history may be lightened this week.
My family would be rich if I had that superpower.
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With that superpower mentality, Nigerians have the image of being incredibly brash and loud and trying to get 129 million of them to pull in the same direction is a thankless task.
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.
On top of this, Africans know that the superpower's military investment will bring money and jobs.
The usual riposte, of course, is that such superpower restraint is necessary if others aspiring to possession of nuclear weapons are to be dissuaded from acquiring them.
Dmitri Trenin, a retired colonel turned pundit, says Russia should accept that its superpower days are over, and try to join countries such as Britain, France and Germany to become another big post-imperial member of the European club.
And both of us wished we had some superpower that would let us be in two places at once.
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But this week's death-penalty ruling seems to show that even a superpower can sometimes be swayed, even if just a bit.
This is a behaviour that the American superpower does not easily abide.
Before 1914, Britain was the superpower that policed the global economic system.
It becomes a sort of superpower that they feel that they have, and it sort of melds into the egos that a lot of them have to have to get to those positions.
Mr Milosz liked to describe himself as the last citizen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a medieval superpower that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea, noted for its religious and cultural tolerance.
"I think it was designed to demonstrate to the world that they remain a superpower, " said Hamre.
Even for a profligate superpower, that is a considerable stake, and America's recently expressed dissatisfaction with General Musharraf should be measured against it.
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's allies sometimes imagine that America's superpower status has transformed it, or ought to have transformed it, into some giant disinterested force for peace and good.
Then there is India, which has an agreement with Sri Lanka, signed in 1987, that gives the regional superpower an interest in any deal with the Tigers.
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Many people in the U. S. believe that China is already a superpower, or will quickly become a superpower.
Building a world-class transportation system is one of the reasons that America became an economic superpower in the first place.
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But while pax Angola may have western blessing, it is causing disquiet in a region that is not at all sure that it wants an Angolan superpower.
You know, the concern that the United States was too powerful, that the United States was perhaps going to go it on its own now that it was the sole superpower, as we used to refer to it.
But one could argue that what keeps America the world's only superpower today -- especially economically -- is precisely the same vulgar culture that Lieberman reviles.
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.
Despite the court's repeated assurances, American congressmen and officials feared that the world's sole superpower would become the target of politically-motivated prosecutions.
The global superpower and nuclear peer that was the other party, the Soviet Union, has been out of business for over a decade.
We have to ask ourselves: Do we want to make the investments we need in things like education and research and high-tech manufacturing -- all those things that helped make us an economic superpower?
Cut off from her trust fund (her dad was jailed for running a Ponzi scheme), Caroline seems helpless at first, but her entitlement turns out to be a kind of superpower she believes that she and Max deserve a better life.
Neo-imperialists worry that America has the responsibilities of a global superpower, but an electorate unwilling to shoulder them.
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