Word: overshadow
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...that March day in 1867 when the British Parliament created a confederated Canada, Britain's Lord Carnarvon had cried: "We are laying the foundation of a great state-perhaps one which at a future date may even overshadow this country." That polite nothing was now a something which, in some senses, had already begun to come true...
...Atomic weapons will overshadow peacetime uses of atomic energy, at least until the world is confident that it has atomic weapons under control. Materials used in atomic-energy plants could easily be converted into bombs...
Hardly another "Oklahoma!", "Sing Out, Sweet Land!" is a handsome, spirited, and highly appealing production in its own right. Walter Kerr's idea is a winning one and two acts of second-rate script writing cannot overshadow the warm American tone...
...world crisis began to overshadow all else in the Russian mind. For the key job in the Foreign Commissariat, Stalin picked his top trouble shooter, Molotov. This was more than a change of faces in Narkomindel (Foreign Office). It was an about-face in Russian policy, from collective security to the two-fisted stand urged by Molotov and his fellow advisers...
Britain, until now the main base of the air offensive against Germany, may soon be a secondary base. North Africa, Sicily, Italy will soon loom large in strategic bombing of Germany, and they may well overshadow Britain...