They did not want to play the great power' game any longer.

She might have great power, but her own position was on the line.

And, of course, women have greater power over their own lives.

When you put them together like that, they have great power.

I think that you will be a great power in the department.

We all know the great power of the insurance industry.

It seems you already have something of the greater power.

Well my life's going to be taken by a greater power than the law in a very short time.

Love, as I hope you will find, has great power.

I still am today now that Israel has become a great power.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more.

George had great power, but he struck out a lot.

So we are here to show that Russia is still a great power.

And, unfortunately, he was in a position of great power with his people.

They also talk of a greater power that may save them.

It gives them great power to be exactly the same.

Well, there's no greater power than to live beyond the law.

Only possible between a great power and a minor nation.

And how easily will you find one of greater power to best her?

But part of being a great power, at this moment in history, means taking responsibility for today's international system.

That is not because those great powers are too strong.

The challenge and opportunity to end it now fall to a great power.

Every other great power in the world recognizes those rights.

If my magic works here, this will give me great power over you.

In such things I think a slave has great power.

It stood, in fact, on the edge of great-power status.

He was better suited to the age of great-power politics than is often assumed.

Or, perhaps, it was a shrewd move in the great-power game.

Still, the Bush administration did not completely abandon great-power diplomacy.

The world of great-power rivalry, he argued, “no longer exists”.

Great-power stability is crucial for a number of reasons.

"Even a genuine detente is not going to mark an end of great-power competition."

Right now, the Obama administration is trapped by its client state the way that great-power patrons often are.

The naval arms race - a principal aspect of great-power politics for centuries - is over.

Only by working much more closely together, they have concluded, can two medium-sized European countries hope to stay in the great-power game.

At the same time, the agreement recognised Finland's desire to remain outside great-power conflicts.

Have we just witnessed the birth of a "new type of great-power relationship"?

Pundits thunder that we are returning to an age of great-power conflicts.

His specialisations include resource security, great-power relationships, international terrorism, and nuclear issues.

In an era of great-power gamesmanship, that may be wishful thinking.

"Partnership" was the new buzz word of great-power relations.

Formal or informal acknowledgment of a nation's great-power status has also been a criterion for being a great power.

The sort of problems governments increasingly face, they say, will be much less predictable than those associated with old great-power rivalries.

The introduction and proliferation of nuclear weapons, meanwhile, made great-power conflict all but unthinkable.

Professor Chellaney's research focuses on great-power relationships in the world and resource security challenges.

Regional organizations are still unable to solve regional problems without great-power leadership.

That interdependence gives no guarantee the two leaders will work out what Xi called a "new type of great-power relationship."

"But it should be equal, without great-power manners and power-politics tricks."

Abroad, this 21st-century president will have to grapple with the sort of great-power rivalries last seen in the 19th century (see article).

In the past, great-power rivals took sides in regional problems, making divisions deeper.