Esempi dal corpus di testo per imperial overstretch
1. Abroad, the Boer War pointed to the dangers of imperial overstretch, while German militarism provoked fears about the nations ability to maintain its strength.
2. Professor Kennedy‘s warning of imperial overstretch is not idle: The political gravity that prevents America from being the flawless hegemon for which internationalists yearn may be precisely what allows it to conserve its strength and persevere as a flawed hegemon.
3. The military buildup under former President Ronald Reagan and the deficits that went with it, he warned, had brought the United States to the point of "imperial overstretch." Not quite.
4. In 1'87, this Yale professor produced the surprise bestseller of the times: a 600–page tome titled "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," whose warning about imperial overstretch captured the attention of an anxious nation.
5. In the American case, it‘s a result of the unexpectedly protracted, bloody and costly Iraq war, in which a small group of foreign insurgents defies the mightiest military the world has seen; concern about the rising economic power of China and India; and a combination of imperial overstretch with socio–economic problems at home.