We are a great continental power with vast treasures of raw materials.

France holds similar views, and together the two big continental powers may be able to bring smaller countries along with them.

For Austria, a continental power, the reality was different.

It too was copied, first of all by France and later by other continental naval powers.

Recognising a major threat to her security, Britain abandoned the policy of holding aloof from entanglements with continental powers.

The Innsbruckers have never forgotten the emperor who allowed them to breathe the heady atmosphere of a continental power for a time.

In spite of the need for central government, England was not unlike many continental powers.

He watched the Senate struggle to reconstruct a shattered nation, then cope with America's emergence as a continental power and industrial giant.

In past centuries, shortages of military manpower used to force us into alliances with continental powers.

After 1871 Germany, united under Prussian leadership, was the strongest continental power in Europe.