No matter that Mr. Tudjman has boasted of his own expansionist intentions regarding large swaths of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The defeat discouraged the Swiss expansionist intentions towards Lake Maggiore for a long time.

This defeat discouraged the expansionist intentions of Uri and its allies towards Lake Maggiore for a time.

Other historians say that the building up of Paraguayan army was for expansionist intentions.

This was the spark that led López to declare war on Brazil, and not mainly the expansionist intentions that some historians argue.

This had resulted in Washington adopting a policy of appeasement towards states with claims to British territories, which clashed with Maine's expansionist intentions that continued to simmer during the 1830's.

In 1397, he invaded Attica with expansionist intentions.

The leaders passed a resolution that rejected the plan as "advancing an insatiable expansionist intention," adding that any such action would prevent establishing an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.

Behind that determination, the argument continues, was worry about Stalin's expansionist intentions: "Above all, the American Government felt a need to demonstrate its overwhelming power to the Soviet Union."

Iran's economic woes are so severe that some Administration analysts have begun an informal reassessment of Iran's military abilities, although not of its expansionist intentions.