hard power

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In a speech that drew a standing ovation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month, Carney said middle powers such as Canada had to work together to counter the rise of hard power.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We must build our hard power, because that is the currency of the age," he told the conference.

From BBC

“If defense is Europe’s ‘hard power’ rebuild, EuroStack-style thinking is the ‘soft power’ rebuild: a push toward a European-controlled tech stack across compute, cloud, security, and apps,” says Tuttle.

From MarketWatch

Senior Pentagon officials have expressed a commitment to rebuilding American hard power.

From The Wall Street Journal

Karp’s new book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” mixes the Cold War ideology of the 1950s with the emerging technology of the 21st century.

From Salon