Bismarckian
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In fact, many of the more notable successes of American foreign policy centered around this Bismarckian idea.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023
But raw power lubricated by audacious lying is Bismarckian.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022
Palmerston appeared determined to thwart all attempts at domestic reform, and he was increasingly out of touch in the new Bismarckian world of international realpolitik.
From BBC • May 1, 2015
Tirelessly, he decorated the famous pavilions and chateau of Louis' Bismarckian minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, at the Parisian suburb of Sceaux, and somehow found time to follow the royal retinue on military campaigns abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the consequence of the Bismarckian tradition of bullying and browbeating one's opponents has been that of intensifying the opposition to the national policy and of compromising its success.
From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David
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