Sentence examples for administrative empires from inspiring English sources

If the featherbedding and general administrative waste in administrative empires in the central Board of Education and district offices were pruned away, there would be more than enough for ample supplies for our children's educations.

As a consequence, administrative empire-building eclipses the primary intellectual goals that should animate a university.

Akkadian rule was highly centralized, and in this way anticipated the administrative logic of empires to come.

Among the German-speaking states, the Holy Roman Empire administrative and legal mechanisms provided a venue to resolve disputes between peasants and landlords, between jurisdictions, and within jurisdictions.

They had, in any case, been stripped of the ability to maintain order in the empire, as the Augsburg terms had placed public security under the supervision of the empire's administrative districts, which were controlled by the estates.

Otto then proceeded to make Rome his official residence and the administrative centre of the empire.

He strengthened the administrative structure of the empire and improved the military defenses of Syria.

The list of the officials, who are specified by the positions they held, throws light on the administrative organization of the empire.

Vienna was at once the administrative capital of an empire whose roots were in late medieval Europe, and a modern world city.

What is certain is that, even if popular usage within the Roman Empire showed great diversification, it was overlaid by a standard written language that preserved a good degree of uniformity until well after the administrative collapse of the empire.

By the time Diocletian reformed the imperial government in the late 3rd century, ushering in the period of relative prosperity symbolized in his great baths, Rome was no longer the administrative capital of the empire.