Sentence examples for a sprawling empire from inspiring English sources

Now Mr Blair has a sprawling empire of ministers to jolly along, with influence and departmental interests of their own.

MOSCOW — For years, opposition politicians accused the longtime mayor of Moscow of ruling over a sprawling empire of crony capitalism.

For Hutchison, a sprawling empire that spans container ports, drugstores and phone companies, the stake is barely a rounding error.

For Vodafone's boss Vittorio Colao, these talks offer further proof that he has no qualms about dismantling a sprawling empire in search of better shareholder returns.

Danubia examines how the dysfunctional Habsburg family could hold together a sprawling empire of competing national groupings for almost half a millennium.

Not quite a century ago, Vienna was downgraded from being the glorious capital of a sprawling empire to the capital of just one country, Austria.

The White Plains, N.Y.-based firm is a remnant of the sprawling empire assembled, on the back of an ancient telegraph business, by the famed 1960s conglomerator Harold Geneen.

Based in White Plains, New York, the company is a remnant of the sprawling empire assembled, on the back of an ancient telegraph business, by Harold Geneen, the famous conglomerator of the 1960s.

Prosecutors also indicted a group of executives tasked with cementing Mr. Lee's grip over the sprawling empire — a group that critics say epitomizes where the country's business culture went wrong.

Tesco is gearing up for the sale of its mobile business as the supermarket group looks to pare back its sprawling empire and reduce a £22bn debt mountain.

Mr Schäuble has had this informal title for years, his only real rival being Volker Rühe, the defence minister, who has grappled better with his sprawling empire than many a luckless predecessor.