Meanings of traditional powers in English

The traditional powers have a much better senior representation, but fewer participants.

Around the world rugby's traditional powers are terrified of the club game in England and France.

The Eagles were trying to knock off traditional powers North Carolina and Duke in consecutive games.

THE spotlights shifted from the traditional powers to Unfamiliar territory in gymnastics on Sunday night in Atlanta.

Smaller nations now believe in their capacity to cause problems and to challenge the traditional powers of world football.

But they will pay a price: Gingrich will lean more on the traditional powers-theappropriators-foradvice in the future.

Might the heavens have been weeping for the re-emergence of the traditional powers in yesterday's Guinness All-Ireland hurling final?

Uefa has been complicit too, he believes, with the Champions League's current format doing eastern Europe's traditional powers a disservice.

The traditional powers no longer held monopoly over the few exotic names that decided to join this ever expanding, free-flowing league.

Each year, traditional powers are laid low by unheralded small-budget programmes few have seen play before this moment on the main stage.

The traditional powers of Dublin and Kerry surely saw the path to Sam Maguire open up in front of them after last Saturday's results.

Cooperation between China and Africa would not "take the old road by traditional powers" nor sacrifice Africa's environment and long-term interests, Wang said.