"I was assured by top Chinese officials that they will protect me with their full naval might," Mr. Thompson said by telephone.

They were therefore easy to rout, given Oman's newly established naval might.

That naval might, however, never was sufficient to limit Dutch trading power.

Use this gigantic symbol of naval might to end the crisis between India and Pakistan.

How very small the portable little hospital looked amid all this naval might, thought Ole Doc.

But she led an impressive show of American naval might before Barbary ports that encouraged them to keep the peace treaties concluded.

Not until January 1898 did McKinley authorize the first show of naval might in Cuban waters.

President Theodore Roosevelt reviewed the fleet as it arrived, having given the world a graphic demonstration of America's naval might.

That astonishingly reckless move led the United States to respond with a show of naval might.

Cole had picked Dreadnought because she was at that time the most prominent and visible symbol of Britain's naval might.