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According to one version, troops would be posted away from the front line at key infrastructure sites such as nuclear power plants and backed by Western air and sea power.
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arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2025
The proposal supported by the United Kingdom and France would see fewer than 30,000 European troops on the ground in Ukraine — away from the front line at key infrastructure sites such as nuclear power plants — backed by Western air and sea power.
—Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
Myler and Courtney, the ranking member of the sea power subcommittee of the U.S. House Armed Services committee, have been involved in the process from the beginning.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2024
In 1918, the British navy invented the first aircraft carrier, but the world’s then dominant sea power treated these ships mostly as spotters for its traditional battleships rather than as mobile bases for conducting offensives.
—Michael C. Horowitz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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arkansasonline.com, 12 Mar. 2025
The proposal supported by the United Kingdom and France would see fewer than 30,000 European troops on the ground in Ukraine — away from the front line at key infrastructure sites such as nuclear power plants — backed by Western air and sea power.
—Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
Myler and Courtney, the ranking member of the sea power subcommittee of the U.S. House Armed Services committee, have been involved in the process from the beginning.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2024
In 1918, the British navy invented the first aircraft carrier, but the world’s then dominant sea power treated these ships mostly as spotters for its traditional battleships rather than as mobile bases for conducting offensives.
—Michael C. Horowitz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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Indeed, Iran has made compromises under political and sanctions pressure in the past, such as during the Obama-era nuclear talks that resulted in Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.—
Scott Peterson,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 June 2025
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The push by the Trump administration to persuade Tehran to give up its nuclear program came after the U.S. and other world powers in 2015 reached a long-term, comprehensive nuclear agreement that limited Tehran's enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 June 2025
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The power struggle unfolding in the far north does indeed have much in common with the original Great Game, the nineteenth-century competition between the era’s two great powers, the British and Russian Empires, over access to strategically and economically valuable territory in Central Asia.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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In each of these periodicals, the passage—unmoored from its original context among other beauty secrets—offered a lengthy and extremely specific taxonomy of the connection between hair and character: Coarse, black hair and dark skin signify great power of character, with a tendency to sensuality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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“Sea power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20power. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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