Expansionist

"Expansionist" in a Sentence (9 examples)

"Iberism" is the new costume of the most expansionist Spanish nationalism. New Guernicas are to be expected...

Therefore “Obama is focused on isolating Putin’s Russia by cutting off its economic and political ties to the outside world, limiting its expansionist ambitions in its own neighborhood and effectively making it a pariah state,” Peter Baker reports in The New York Times.

The empire fell as a result of the expansionist tendencies of its neighbors.

The battle checked the empire's expansionist tendencies.

Are projections of the global population that would plateau then decrease correct? How would such impact the expansionist philosophy? Would humanity endear sustainability?

Morocco is pursuing an expansionist policy in Western Sahara.

Unlike passenger demand forecasts in England, that have resulted in the removal of 20% of service capacity in the May 2022 timetable, Welsh Ministers acting through the TfW agency are continuing an expansionist agenda for rail services under their control.

Lindberg says that current phenomena are reminiscent of the 1930s, right before the expansionist ambitions of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sparked a world war.

Mr. Miller argues convincingly that a majority of Americans shared the romantic nationalism of such expansionists as Theodore Roosevelt and Sen. Albert Beveridge and participated vicariously in their dreams of martial glory and expanding markets.

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