The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
天定命运论，命定扩张说（19世纪一种扩张主义理论，认为美国在南北美洲大陆的扩张是正当和必然的）
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Neither he nor Vattimo mentions manifest destiny or the white man's burden, but these ideas lurk disturbingly close to the surface of their urbanely arrogant prose.
A sense of manifest destiny began to attach itself to their progress.
The belief in manifest destiny had opened up North America as far as the West Coast, and after the Civil War the nation had come of age.
The first paper draws our attention to the concept of manifest destiny and current war discourse in the American context.
Americans looked to the western lands as an opportunity for large amounts of free land, for growth of industry, and manifest destiny.
But in truth, you know, that was really the birth of what would become manifest destiny and the western expansion.
That worked in post-Puritan America and led to the doctrine of manifest destiny and some positive missions.
Chapters on manifest destiny and the Indian wars trace Ambrose's own travels across the country.
The concept of manifest destiny first entered American political parlance in the 1840s, when continental expansionism first became physically sustainable.
The idea of manifest destiny and ‘internal exploration’ as you mentioned is still very strong in the hearts of many Americans.
The very idea of manifest destiny encouraged men and women to dream big dreams.
The idea of manifest destiny was being used long before John O'Sullivan, an editor for the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, coined the term in 1845.
The war with Mexico was also a product of the United States' belief of manifest destiny.
The idea of American exceptionalism was expressed domestically in the doctrine of manifest destiny.
The end result of manifest destiny, racism and unrestrained capitalism has led to a public that yearns to be fooled.
In my experience, secular Americans are as likely as religious Americans to believe that we are the rightful beneficiaries of some kind of manifest destiny.
The Civil War combatants have laid down their arms and have joined in the mission of manifest destiny in hopes of settling the final American frontier of the late 1800s.
Servitude has often been ‘justified’ by theories of manifest destiny, evolutionary or social superiority.
This is not to be confused with utopianism, nor with a doctrine of manifest destiny, whether national or global, nor with a theocratic theory of the state.
This goal was compatible with the doctrine of manifest destiny, and Spencer's Social Darwinism.