Sentence examples for about the emperor from inspiring English sources

It has produced several programs set in the ancient world, including a 2003 mini-series about the Emperor Augustus.

"I'd rather make a movie about a guy walking his dog than about the emperor of China," he once said.

Even so, he was, very noticeably, a much lesser hit than last time around.Some of his jokes (including one about the Emperor Diocletian) fell flat.

We never learn much about the Emperor, except that he regards his wife as a sex object, while Barak is so thoroughly good as to exclude other qualities.

As he states in his preface: "Jim Jarmusch once said he'd rather make a movie about a man walking his dog than about the emperor of China.

"We speak respectfully about the emperor, but arguably we use him like a slave," said Daisuke Kodaka, 34, an employee at a cosmetics company in Tokyo.

Among them was the loss of part of his collection in a shipwreck when he was forced to flee the Netherlands in 1789 during a rebellion brought about by the emperor's radical reforms.

In practical terms the Meiji Restoration of 1868 did not bring about direct rule by the emperor.

There are personal reasons for what seems to be a mystery about the emperors, but cultural reasons as well.

Even better, FiveFingers signals an ideology, a defiant embrace of a naked message to, and about, Big Footwear: the emperor has shoes, but I refuse to buy them.

From about 740 onward the emperor's actual control of affairs began to decline.