"Infrastructure deployment is something Americans do well; it plays to our national strengths," the report notes.

It would be one thing if we were going into debt to solve these problems that affect our underlying national strength.

The skills required to make these machines should play into our national strengths.

Conservatism that won't use military power contradicts its commitment to national strength.

Still, it can be dangerous to measure national economic strength solely by the relative values of currencies.

Nevertheless he carefully noted the new sources of national strength which its reforms called forth in France.

"The fulfillment of this goal will enable the country's overall national strength, and people's living standards, to reach a new high," he said.

"In the coming election, Democrats must stand unequivocally for national strength," he declared.

It's also our path to sustained national strength and purpose.

At the same time, this belief in British national strength owed much to short-term factors.