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• Nationalizing rail systems early on helped protect some countries from attack and furthered the expansionist dreams of others. Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century
• The team is viewed as vigorously expansionist, and is rumoured to be prepared to look at investments in local newspapers, radio stations and new internet opportunities.
• There was some variation in this regard as different colonial powers pursued different expansionist policies.
• There are many in expansionist China today who believe that this prerogative belongs to them. Communist China—Time for Reappraisal
• This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.” A Country of Vast Designs
• The slavery expansionists originally took the position that the federal government had no role to play because they wanted slavery to gain a foothold, then when they realized they were losing, they switched to demanding that the federal government affirmatively defend the rights of slaveholders to settle the new land. The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism
• The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians.
• What if the Iranians actually see Israel as an expansionist power seeking to adust its borders at the expense of fellow Muslims. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• The irredentist ideology was eventually exacerbated by the fascist regime, which used it as an ideological mask for its expansionist policy.
• Whilst the empire was destroyed, the colony-states across the ocean survived and became the cities of the Khaiem, where the power of the andat continues to hold sway and hold rival nations, such as expansionist Galt, in check. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham