Today Russia has become, by most measures, the dominant power in the Arctic.

今天俄罗斯在很多方面已经成了北极的主宰力量。

After World War II, France was frankly no longer a dominant power.

二战后，法国坦率地不再是主导大国。

Under King Ram Khamhaeng, the city-state  of Sukhothai became a dominant power.

在 Ram Khamhaeng 国王的统治下，素可泰城邦成为了主导力量。

The English-language Global Times said the United States is no longer " a dominant power in Africa."

英文版《环球时报》称， 美国不再是“非洲的主导力量” 。

In the Far East, the Empire of Japan was ascendant as the dominant power there, and several years

在远东地区，日本帝国作为那里的主导力量崛起，并持续了数年。

He understood that coins are literally the stamp of authority, asserting the dominant power in the society using them-and that power was now his.

是向它所流通的社会表明统治权的手段，而统治权如今在他手中。

If these machines became the dominant power on Earth, their strict values might become hegemonic, locking humanity into one ideology that would be incredibly resistant to change.

如果这些机器成为地球上的主导力量，他们严格的价值观可能成为霸权主义，将人类锁定在一种意识形态中，并非常抵触变化。

But, of course, the United States also has to factor in the fact that the dominant power here on the ground in Syria is still the Russians.

但是, 当然, 美国也必须考虑到这样一个事实，即叙利亚的主导力量仍然是俄罗斯。

Does the US, does Russia, does China actually want a more globalised world or are they just more concerned about being the dominant power?

美国、俄罗斯、中国真的想要一个更加全球化的世界，还是他们只是更关心成为主导力量？

Located in what is now South Dakota, control of the Black Hills, or Paha Sapa, marked the Lakotas as the dominant power in the American West.

位于现在的南达科他州，对黑山或帕哈萨帕的控制标志着拉科塔人成为美国西部的主导力量。

It was a wake-up call to see the dominant power in the region so humbled, but even worse for the Tokugawa was the arrival of Matthew Perry.

看到该地区的主导力量如此卑微，这是一记警钟，但对德川幕府来说更糟糕的是马修佩里的到来。

And so, lsraelites began to dream that one day God would definitively battle the enemies of the nation and make it the dominant power in the world.

于是，以色列人开始期待，来日天主定会打击以色列的仇敌，并使以色列成为世界强国。

Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own.

人类慷慨努力地建立那种不贬低造物主的假说和猜想，当他们要去构想一个比自己的道德品质还要低下的主宰力量时，便总是迟疑不决。

And it’s really important to note that in 1800, it was not clear that Europe was going to become the world’s dominant manufacturing power in the next hundred years.

真正重要的是要注意， 在 1800 年，欧洲是否会在未来一百年内成为世界主导的制造大国尚不清楚。