Twirling a globe, he offers witty generalizations about the major superpowers.

Ms. Lincoln and I represent a private organization, unaffiliated with any of the major superpowers, that keeps a watchful eye on world events.

Read or Die takes place in an alternate history world where the British Empire has remained a major superpower.

For the people of East Asia, it will affect their relations with the region's major superpower.

Only scientific aspects of fourth five-year plans were adopted in a view to turn Pakistan into a major "scientific superpower" in the world.

I suspect that the major superpowers have an inkling of what happened under the Adriatic, but nobody seems to be in a hurry to alert the media.

By the end of World War II, the Soviet Union had become a major military superpower.

So vast and expensive was this undertaking that the two major superpowers decided to pool their technological resources in the effort.

"We are a major superpower with a third-world electrical grid," said Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, an energy secretary during the Clinton administration.

I haven't even had a chance to figure out what height to put this chair at, and one of the major superpowers in the quadrant has its government literally fall apart.