They had lost the Civil War. Now much of their power was gone, and they were suffering.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

It ruled a wide-reaching empire. This week in our series, we look at how British power gave way to American influence after World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.08.04

We shall continue to use it, until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

The results of the Boxer Rebellion and the Spanish-American War made clear that the new century would have a new world power: the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

And only Congress had the constitutional power to declare war.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

And nearly three-out-of-five believe the war against the insurgency cannot be won with military power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

This latest incident comes at a time when Afghanistan is witnessing its worst violence of the eight-year-long war following the ouster of the Taliban from power in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21