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Expansionism

Expansionism meaning

The policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence.

Example sentences (20)

General Barrons said Russian expansionism is the "biggest risk to our security" and that military spending by the UK and other NATO countries should reflect this.

He also emphasized that Turkey’s recent diplomatic moves to improve ties with Egypt and Syria were aimed at creating a “line of solidarity against the growing threat of expansionism,” which he claimed also poses risks to Lebanon and Syria.

Settlements and expansionism are part of Jewish Zionism.

The date is increasingly known as Indigenous People’s Day in honor of the native people whose communities, health and culture were decimated by European expansionism.

Can Greece Expect US Support in the Face of Turkish Expansionism?

That tradition emphasized opportunistically ruthless expansionism on this continent, avid commercial engagement, and the avoidance of great power rivalries abroad.

The former vice president has steered clear of the most liberal proposals on curtailing Israeli expansionism.

With a strong economy and influence in the world community, China began dreaming of her ancient habit of land hunger or expansionism.

Demanding a reversal of US military expansionism as a part of the environmental movement is sane on its face and will benefit everyone, and it will also help highlight all unwholesome elements of empire loyalism.

Like many major powers, India has to balance its own bilateral economic ties to China with concerns about Chinese military expansionism and predatory lending.

The last three years have seen a depressing erosion of Manila’s relationship with the United States and a weakening of its resistance to Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea.

The United States is planning to bolster its military presence in the Pacific and counter Chinese expansionism by building a naval base in northern Australia.

At the same time, Washington’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the JCPOA) and the reintroduction of international sanctions may well restrain Tehran’s regional expansionism and drive it to reconsider its continued military presence in Syria.

The country’s apartheid government devoted considerable effort towards presenting the war as part of a containment programme against regional Soviet expansionism and used it to stoke public anti-communist sentiment.

The danger of nationalism is it can lead to expansionism via conquest, and then imperialism.

Ukraine accuses the Russian of wielding a pernicious influence on its soil allowing itself to be used as a tool of the Kremlin to justify Russian expansionism and support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.

By the dawn of the fourth century BC, however, the neighbouring tribes had all been either subdued or conquered, and the stage was set for the rise of Qin expansionism.

By the middle of the 8th century, other kingdoms of southern Britain were also affected by Mercian expansionism.

Calvin believes that Chinese actions show a "pattern of conservative aims and limited objectives, rather than expansionism" and blames this particular conflict on India's provocations towards China.

Guild and Carter 9 Missouri was then the frontier of American expansionism west; cabins were "forted" with tall stockade fences to defend against Indian attacks.