hard power
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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No amount of royal soft power will reassure US generals worried about the UK's lack of hard power.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Stubbs and O’Malley recommend investors ”stay aligned with hard power industries to benefit from fiscal support and to hedge AI disruption.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Senior Pentagon officials have expressed a commitment to rebuilding American hard power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
If we burn that trust, our hard power won't save us.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025
The voice of a woman, harsh, high, and angrily complaining—a voice with all the freshness and the melody gone, and with nothing but the hard power of it left—was the discordantly predominant sound.
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
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